Examining adults’ web navigation patterns in multi-layered hypertext environments
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Highlights：
• Effective web navigation patterns are important to adults to obtain optimal information from the Internet.
• Pattern choice and pattern effectiveness differ across various types of web search tasks.
• Five web navigation patterns were found, including Flimsy, Breadth-first, Laborious, Satisficing, and Sampling.
• Satisficing pattern group tended to produce the highest success rate in the specific information-locating task.
• Sampling pattern group was found to be associated with the best performance in the amorphous information-evaluating task.
摘要
•Effective web navigation patterns are important to adults to obtain optimal information from the Internet.•Pattern choice and pattern effectiveness differ across various types of web search tasks.•Five web navigation patterns were found, including Flimsy, Breadth-first, Laborious, Satisficing, and Sampling.•Satisficing pattern group tended to produce the highest success rate in the specific information-locating task.•Sampling pattern group was found to be associated with the best performance in the amorphous information-evaluating task.
论文关键词：Multi-layered hypertext environments,Web navigation patterns,Adult,Clickstream data,Latent class analysis,Full-path sequence analysis
论文评审过程：Received 2 April 2021, Revised 3 December 2021, Accepted 8 December 2021, Available online 11 December 2021, Version of Record 15 December 2021.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107142
