Website Structural Navigation

Appendices

A. Experimental Materials

The only materials used is the experiment website that can be found at http://www.otal.umd.edu/SHORE2000/webnav/test/.

The basic test instructions are located at the beginning of the test site.
The initial questionaire asks users for their experience on the web, their Internet connection speed and their age.
If users clicked on a wrong link in the tasks, they were sent to a dummy page.
The final subjective survey asks the testers about their personal preference on navigation bar usage.

B. Consent Form

The consent form is located on the test site.

C. E-mail response

Five e-mail messages are automatically sent per user by the Perl script. An example of each are:

The IP number was included in the e-mails so the five messages could be linked together. Otherwise, data for two users using the program simultaneously could get mixed-matched. The browser and OS information was included through the Perl environment variable.

D. Raw Data

The raw data for completed tests can be seen here. There were 15 trials that only have partial data because people did not finish the test completly (that data was removed from the final set). User comments, consent initials and IP numbers are not listed in this data, but have been recorded in the actual test files.