With the rapid accumulation of online information, efficient web navigation has grown vital yet challenging. To create an easily navigable cyberspace catering to diverse demographics, understanding how people navigate differently is paramount. While previous research has unveiled individual differences in spatial navigation, such differences in knowledge space navigation remain sparse. To bridge this gap, we conducted an online experiment where participants played a navigation game on Wikipedia and completed personal information questionnaires. Our analysis shows that age negatively affects knowledge space navigation performance, while multilingualism enhances it. Under time pressure, participants' performance improves across trials and males outperform females, an effect not observed in games without time pressure. In our experiment, successful route-finding is usually not related to abilities of innovative exploration of routes. Our results underline the importance of age, multilingualism and time constraint in the knowledge space navigation.

翻译：随着在线信息的快速积累，高效的网络导航变得日益重要且充满挑战。为构建适应不同人群的易导航网络空间，理解人类导航方式的差异至关重要。尽管已有研究揭示了空间导航中的个体差异，但关于知识空间导航差异的研究仍较为匮乏。为填补这一空白，我们开展了一项在线实验，被试需在维基百科上完成导航游戏并填写个人信息问卷。分析表明：年龄对知识空间导航绩效产生负面影响，而多语言能力则能显著提升导航表现。在时间压力条件下，被试的导航绩效随实验轮次提升，且男性表现优于女性，但在无时间压力的游戏中未观察到该差异。本实验中，成功路径发现通常与创新性路径探索能力无关。研究结果强调了年龄、多语言能力及时限约束在知识空间导航中的重要作用。