Quote: ScentTrails faster than ShortScent; both faster than searching or browsing; company site with 3-4 links from home page to destination

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[In a preliminary user study] we cut off performance time at 5 … [45%] and searching [25%] conditions [than for ScentTrails (4%) or ShortScent (18%) conditions.] … The results show that ScentTrails differs significantly both … and from browsing … (ScentTrails [average search time] M = 1.59 minutes, ShortScent M=2.35 … the test corpus we used in our experiment … [www.xerox.com] was somewhat … [with 3-4 links from root to destination] …   Google-1   Google-2

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