Keith Instone

At the 2002 IA Summit, I proposed a research agenda (a series of questions, actually) for breadcrumbs. Some of the research is starting to roll in. Links that address this research agenda:

• Exploring User Mental Models of Location, Path, and Attribute Breadcrumbs in Web Navigation, Colter, Summers & Smith, University of Baltimore.
• Breadcrumb Navigation: Further Investigation of Usage, Rogers & Chaparro, Wichita State.
• Breadcrumb Navigation: An Exploratory Study of Usage, Lida, Hulll & Pilcher, Wichita State.
• Datos sobre uso y efectividad de breadcrumbs, Eduardo Manchon (in Spanish)
• Methods and Models of Navigation in Hypertextual Space, Jamie Blustein, Dalhousie University