Navigability of an ontology-based web site

Kyungsil Min, Sungkyu Chun, Hwansoo Kim, Hyosook Jung, Seongbin Park

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    Abstract

    A web site should be designed carefully because if the structure of the site is complex, users can be disoriented. A navigable web site is one where users can find desired information as they freely move around at the site. It is important to construct a navigable web site because the navigability of a web site can indicate how accessible the information contents in the site might be. In this paper, we present a way by which a navigable web site might be created. Our method utilizes an ontology that specifies important concepts in the domain of interests and describes how they are related. A web site is modeled as a directed graph and navigability is measured by two quantities: time spent and the number of web pages visited by a user during an information retrieval task. Experimental results indicated that navigability increased as the degree of similarity between the structure of the site and that of ontology increased.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInformation Quality in e-Health - 7th Conference of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2011, Proceedings
    Pages441-453
    Number of pages13
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    Event7th Conference of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2011 - Graz, Austria
    Duration: 2011 Nov 252011 Nov 26

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume7058 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Other

    Other7th Conference of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2011
    Country/TerritoryAustria
    CityGraz
    Period11/11/2511/11/26

    Keywords

    • navigability
    • ontology

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • General Computer Science

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