Contextual multi-dimensional browsing.
Browsing efficiency depends to a large extent on the organization of the information being browsed. An emerging method of organizing Web content, called multi-faceted categorization, adopts a flat structure and treats different facets of the browsed content as equal and independent. The advantage of...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 2873 - 2889 |
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Elsevier Science
November 2008
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