Navigation Features

What are we discussing  We are not talking about layout and navigation bars here….we are talking beyond that.  Telling a user where they are at in a web site  Structure of web site  Search and Results

Where Am I? Map views of Websites Introduction Fields of Research Collaboration with Industry Research in Vision Rosenfeld, Azriel Center for Automation Research Rosenfeld, Azriel Rivlin, et al., (Feb. 1994). Navigating in Hyperspace: Designing a structure-based toolbox. CACM, 37(2), 2:87–96..

Types of Website Maps  Breadcrumb lists  Sitemap lists  Sitemap pictures  Multi-dimensional pictures  Colour, size, and position  Dynamic Diagrams, Inc.

Breadcrumb Detail

Breadcrumb  Example at IBM

Some Sample Sitemaps

Sitemap List

Sitemap  Example at IBM Zurich

Indexing  Create index – useful when larger set of items to display  Often alphabetical

Paging and Pagination  Idea – present multiple items a page at a time.  Need – how do you paginate – controls.  Often results of a search operation.

Slide (show) through items  Not traditional “page numbering.  Works like a slide show…typically with images  Works best on limited number of items

Slide Show  Here is some results from Yahoo on images themselves!  Here results on new items of the day

Search Results  Lists or Images with some pagination/slide show navigation  List by relevance or sponsorship or publication date or????

Search Results  Here have sponsored, relevance ordering with pagination.

Search Results  Here more imagery used because of type of search (for a person)

Search Results