Pausch, R.; Detmer, J.: Node popularity as a hypertext browsing aid (1990)
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- Abstract
- Describes a user study where the popularity of each node in a hypertext dtabase was presented with the links leading to that node and where popularity was computed by counting the number of users who had previously visited the node. Users clearly incorporated popularity information in their decisions: compares their browsing patterns with a control group for whom the popularity information was not provided. One possible use of popularity can be offset the previously documented trait of users to over-select items near the top or bottom of a linear list. Documents that popularity information affects user behaviour, but ages not necessarily advocate its use
