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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS
Transactions ID Number: 28-434
Full Name: Perwaiz Ismaili
Position: Researcher
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: 7401 Alma Drive, Apt #432, Plano, TX 75025
Country: UNITED STATES
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E-mail address: pbi021000@utdallas.edu
Other E-mails: pismaili@yahoo.com
Title of the Paper: Traversal Patterns for Content Designed Web Environment
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Perwaiz B. Ismaili. Richard M. Golden
Email addresses of all the authors: pbi021000@utdallas,edu, golden@utdallas.edu
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: This paper describe new ways of observing effects of content presentation and domain knowledge upon navigation behaviors by designing web (hypertext) presentation format that adheres to content design inspired by discourse and text comprehension literature. More specifically logical connections between web pages at macro level for all web sites were constructed meticulously and kept consistent across all three knowledge domains. Twenty undergraduate Psychology students participated in this preliminary study in investigating domain knowledge and content presentation influence on Hypertext (web) site traversal behavior. Classical data analysis (ANOVA) were used to explore these qualitative phenomena. Contrary to our belief expertise difference were not significant for total number of web pages (nodes) visited or overall time spent on each knowledge domain web sites. However, these differences were significantly strong for super-ordinate nodes, nodes with more sema!
ntic (logical) connections and irrelevant nodes.
Keywords: Hypertext, Navigation, User Behavior, Content design, Expertise, Scientific text, Web design
EXTENSION of the file: .doc
Special (Invited) Session: Can Expertise be discerned from Traversal Behavior in a Content Designed Hypertext (web) Environment?
Organizer of the Session: 599-418R
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