An idea of formalizing web page information architecture
Kishimoto Yorinori · 2008
For analyzing performance of Web site, a point of view of the information architecture has been proposed. [1] It considers from the structural side in information elements composing Web site, and this idea derives information structure of a high usefulness for a user of Web site. However, it is required that experience of many Web designs and interface designs because this idea includes a difficult concept to use it in a Web design work. In addition, it is difficult to use this idea in a practical field, because to express clearly the Web information architecture is few. This paper proposed a formalization method of Web page's information architecture by regular expression for checking its structure. This method classifies structure elements of a Web page in attributes on the basis of the Web information architecture, and its expressed by two types of equations on the basis of the F-Shaped reading pattern. This method can verify structure of the information architecture of a Web page. As a result, this method was able to analyze to structure elements of lack point and a redundant point in Web page information architecture.