How Web browsers shape users' understanding of networks

نویسندگان

  • Louise Sheeran
  • M. Angela Sasse
  • Jon Rimmer
  • Ian Wakeman
چکیده

The Web is one of the most popular Internet applications today. However, transmissions on the Internet are not very robust, and users are inevitably faced with breakdown situations. To take appropriate recovery actions, a basic user's model of how the Internet works, that is, an application specific model of the important network components relevant to the application in question, is deemed to be useful.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Electronic Library

دوره 20  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002