Landmarks to Aid Navigation in a Graphical User Interface
Wendy Ark D. Christopher Dryer Ted Selker Shumin Zhai
IBM Almaden Research Center
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San Jose, CA 95120 USA
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Abstract
A sufficient technique to deal with the complex electronic information space is needed. One method is to employ landmarks in a space for people to orient themselves and therefore, people will be able to navigate through the vast amounts of information. Landmarks can be constructed in a GUI so that they are salient and improve the interface by improving user performance by simplifying the search space and improving the user's memory.