Searching through cyberspace: The effects of link display and link density on information retrieval from hypertext on the World Wide Web

✍ Scribed by Khan, Kushal ;Locatis, Craig

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 65 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199802)49:2<176::aid-asi7>3.0.co;2-8

✦ Synopsis

This study investigated information retrieval from hyper-Most hypertext human-computer interaction research text on Internet's World Wide Web (WWW). Significant has been done with stand-alone systems. A truly global main and interaction effects were found for both link hypertext/hypermedia environment has only become a density (number of links per display) and display format reality with the advent of Internet's World Wide Web (in paragraphs or lists) on search performance. Low link (WWW) (Krol, 1996). Web technology enables authors densities displayed in list format produced the best overall results, in terms of search accuracy, search time, to interconnect multimedia documents and resources renumber of links explored, and search task prioritization. siding on multiple servers worldwide (Reynolds, 1996), Lower densities affected user ability to prioritize search and it offers a new, more expansive environment for tasks and produced more accurate searches, while list studying hypertext issues. This study addresses some of displays positively affected all aspects of searching exthe issues associated with finding information and navicept task prioritization. The performance of novices and experts, in terms of their previous experience browsing gating large, multimedia information spaces. It examines hypertext on the WWW, was compared. Experts perold hypertext research variables and new ones within the formed better, mostly because of their superior task pricontext of the World Wide Web. oritization.