The Cognitive Walkthrough for the Web (CWW) transforms the original Cognitive Walkthrough (CW)

• CWW bypasses the
• CWW uses a slight adaptation of the four questions of CW.
• Good fit with website design processes. The web developer applies the CWW to one web page at a time, the page under construction. The developer starts with the home page and then moves to lower and lower levels of the hierarchy (for example, home page, subsite main pages, intermediate level pages, terminal node pages)
• Capacity to model representative goals for diverse user groups, including English-speaking users with various levels of reading comprehension and background knowledge. CWW has the potential to add new LSA semantic spaces, and CWW will consequently gain the capacity to simulate users from different cultures/subcultures and users who speak various languages.
• Takes as input long (100-word to 200-word) narrative goals that richly describe users' understanding of their tasks and their underlying motivation
• Built on a computer simulation model of goal-driven exploration of websites— the CoLiDeS model. According to CoLiDeS, the user first parses the web page into regions and focuses on the region that is semantically most similar to the user goal. Then the user comprehends the actions available in the focused-on region and selects the one that is semantically most similar to the user goal. As a result, the heading labels for regions play a crucial role in directing/misdirecting user attention, and an important contribution of CWW is its ability to accurately identify and repair problematic headings.