Hypermedia navigation: Differences between spatial cognitive styles.
Recently, many studies have investigated the role of individual and cognitive differences during Web navigation and Web searching. Despite this interest, no works have considered the role may assume individual differences in real-environment navigation during Web navigation. The aim of this work is...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 66; pp. 191 - 201 |
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Elsevier B.V.
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