TY - JOUR
T1 - Expanding hypertext
T2 - Does it address disorientation? Depends on individuals' adventurousness
AU - Lee, Moon J.
PY - 2005/4
Y1 - 2005/4
N2 - This article investigates how individuals' adventurousness (a personality characteristic) influences their experience with different types of computer text formats and whether expanding hypertext, a new hybrid hypertext format, addresses the most frequently cited hypertext problem, disorientation. Two hundred and one college students participated in an experimental study which evaluated three variations of computer text formats. Specifically, the study investigated how individuals with different levels of adventurousness exhibited different preferences for, and disorientation with, different computer text formats. Participant adventurousness was found to interact with text format on participant feelings of disorientation. The participants prefered the paged hypertext and the expanding hypertext over the scrolling text format.
AB - This article investigates how individuals' adventurousness (a personality characteristic) influences their experience with different types of computer text formats and whether expanding hypertext, a new hybrid hypertext format, addresses the most frequently cited hypertext problem, disorientation. Two hundred and one college students participated in an experimental study which evaluated three variations of computer text formats. Specifically, the study investigated how individuals with different levels of adventurousness exhibited different preferences for, and disorientation with, different computer text formats. Participant adventurousness was found to interact with text format on participant feelings of disorientation. The participants prefered the paged hypertext and the expanding hypertext over the scrolling text format.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00255.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00255.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:21344437693
SN - 1083-6101
VL - 10
JO - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
JF - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
IS - 3
ER -