Characterizing Browsing Strategies in the World-Wide Web (1995)
| Venue: | Computer Networks and ISDN Systems |
| Citations: | 171 - 4 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Catledge95characterizingbrowsing,
author = {Lara D. Catledge and James E. Pitkow},
title = {Characterizing Browsing Strategies in the World-Wide Web},
booktitle = {Computer Networks and ISDN Systems},
year = {1995},
pages = {1065--1073}
}
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Abstract
This paper presents the results of a study conducted at Georgia Institute of Technology that captured client-side user events of NCSA's XMosaic. Actual user behavior, as determined from clientside log file analysis, supplemented our understanding of user navigation strategies as well as provided real interface usage data. Log file analysis also yielded design and usability suggestions for WWW pages, sites and browsers. The methodology of the study and findings are discussed along with future research directions. Keywords Hypertext Navigation, Log Files, User Modeling Introduction With the prolific growth of the World-Wide Web (WWW) [Berners-Lee et.al, 1992] in the past year there has been an increased demand for an understanding of the WWW audience. Several studies exist that determine demographics and some behavioral characteristics of WWW users via selfselection [Pitkow and Recker 1994a & 1994b]. Though highly informative, such studies only provide high level trends in Web use (e...
