Navigation Strategies in Case of Different Kind of User Interfaces

Information seeking is a very frequent task in our everyday computer usage. We often search not only one but also more information, more objects on web pages, on the user interface of different kind of software or multimedia program. In our study we sought the answer to the question how property of objects (etc. size, form) influence the time needed to find them, how object placement influence searching time, what kind of searching strategy users use to find the targets and whether we find everything we need. We examined within-page navigation thus, all targets were placed on the same screen. Users had to search among 2and 3-dimensional shapes and in pictures.