Navigation and Learning A Cognitive Analysis of User Tasks in Electronic Information Spaces

While the navigation metaphor has received widespread support from the HCI community, the views on the usefulness of the navigation approach have a very wide range. Benyon (1998, p 35) argues that “‘Navigation in Information Space’ is not (just) a metaphor, (...) [it] is a new paradigm for thinking about HCI.” On the other hand, Dillon and Vaughan (1997) claim that “navigation is a limited metaphor for hypermedia that potentially constrains our understanding of human-computer interaction” (p 91).