NDLI: A study of three browser history mechanisms for Web navigation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Nadeem, T. Killam, B.
Copyright Year	2001
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA (Nadeem, T.)
Abstract	Finding a previously visited page during Web navigation is a very common and important process. Although most commercial browsers incorporate a history mechanism, when accessing pages that were recently visited, users still rely mainly on the "Back" button. In this paper, we studied the effectiveness of visually enhanced history browser mechanisms on Web navigation. We used three different history mechanisms as the experiment treatments. 21 college students were the subjects of the experimental trials. With a between-subject design, three experimental groups were equally divided according to subject profiles. Users read and completed the given scenario. A quiz was given to measure user performance on the tested mechanism. At the end of the quiz, a subjective questionnaire was given to measure user satisfaction. The results showed that there is a significant statistical difference among the three mechanisms. The more visually enhanced history mechanism provided to be more effective in Web browsing.
Starting Page	13
Ending Page	21
File Size	1164643
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769511953
DOI	10.1109/IV.2001.942034
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-07-25
Publisher Place	UK
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	History Navigation Web pages Educational institutions World Wide Web Internet Computer science Testing Web sites Silver
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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