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lostness: a standalone construct

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Human-computer interaction

how disoriented a user is while navigating hypertext, measured by comparing pages visited with the minimum needed.

In human-computer interaction, lostness refers to how disoriented a user is while navigating hypertext, measured by comparing pages visited with the minimum needed. This meaning comes from Smith (1996) in Interacting with Computers.[1]

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interaction3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

  1. Smith, P. A. (1996). Towards a practical measure of hypertext usability. Interacting with Computers, 8(4), 365-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0953-5438(97)83779-4

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