Abstract
We conducted an explorative study to investigate whether hypertext users use spatial expressions to conceptualize cognitive actions they are involved in, and how these expressions relate to the type of actions (executions versus evaluations) and the level of actions (syntactic vs. semantic vs. pragmatic). As a method, we used ten thinking aloud protocols of hypertext users who were navigating a website. The results of the protocol analysis indicate that spatial expressions were most frequent when users describe executions on the syntactic action level. The exploration allows us to critically assess the value of the thinking aloud method to shed light on the cognitive actions and processing involved in using hypertext.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 8-21 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Information Design Journal |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2006 |
Funding
This research was partly conducted within the IMIX project Interactive Multimodal Output Generation (Imogen), sponsored by The Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO).
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- Human-computer interaction
- Hypertext use
- Navigation aids
- Spatial metaphor
- Thinking aloud protocols
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