Conceptual Navigation Analysis: a device and platform independent navigation specification
Cristina Cachero, Nora Parcus de Koch, Jaime Gómez, Oscar Pastor, Valencia Spain · 2002
Abstract Most existing Web applications conceptual modeling approaches are based on a design concept, the page, on which the navigational specification of the system is usually built. However, their increasing personalization and mobility demands, together with the high pace at which new devices and technologies are appearing, are causing such applications and their related models to become increasingly complex and less reusable. This problem would be lessened by integrating a navigation analysis model exclusively based on the different user requirements. Supporting this idea, in this article we introduce two constructs that increase the level of abstraction at which navigational aspects are captured, namely the Navigation Semantic Unit (NSU) and the Navigation Semantic Link (NSL), and which are in the core of a navigational model independent from users, platforms and access devices. Also, we outline how this model can be integrated in a range of user-oriented hypermedia modeling approaches, and influence the way their navigation design models are constructed.