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An Exploratory Evaluation of Three Interfaces for Browsing Large Hierarchical Tables of Contents by Richard Chimera; Ben Shneiderman is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is An Exploratory Evaluation of Three Interfaces for Browsing Large Hierarchical Tables of Contents about?
Three different interfaces were used to browse a large (1296 items) table of contents. A fully expanded stable interface, expand/contract interface, and multipane interface were studied in a between-groups experiment with 41 novice participants. Nine timed fact retrieval tasks were performed; each task is analyzed and discussed separately. We found that both the expand/contract and multipane interfaces produced significantly faster times than the stable interface for many tasks using this large hierarchy; other advantages of the expand/contract and multipane interfaces over the stable interface are discussed. The animation characteristics of the expand/contract interface appear to play a major role. Refinements to the multipane and expand/contract interfaces are suggested. A predictive model for measuring navigation effort of each interface is presented.
Who reads An Exploratory Evaluation of Three Interfaces for Browsing Large Hierarchical Tables of Contents?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Computer Science.
- Author
- Richard Chimera; Ben Shneiderman
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery; Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (ISSN 1046-8188)
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Computer Science (Physical Sciences)