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The Impact of Link Suggestions on User Navigation and User Perception

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User Modeling 2005 (UM 2005)

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The study reported in this paper explores the effects of providing web users with link suggestions that are relevant to their tasks. Results indicate that link suggestions were positively received. Furthermore, users perceived sites with link suggestions as more usable and themselves as less disoriented. The average task execution time was significantly lower than in the control condition and users appeared to navigate in a more structured manner. Unexpectedly, men took more advantage from link suggestions than women.

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, De Uithof, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ion Juvina

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Eelco Herder

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, 10149, Torino, Italy

    Liliana Ardissono

  2. The SCRE Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Eldon Street, P.O. Box, G3 6NH, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Paul Brna

  3. Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, P.O. Box, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Antonija Mitrovic

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Juvina, I., Herder, E. (2005). The Impact of Link Suggestions on User Navigation and User Perception. In: Ardissono, L., Brna, P., Mitrovic, A. (eds) User Modeling 2005. UM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3538. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527886_66

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