WebScout: Support for revisitation of Web pages within a navigation session

N. Milic-Frayling, R. Sommerer, K. Rodden

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Abstract

WebScout is a system that creates a personal archive of Web pages seen by the user and a rich record of the user's navigation, including various types of user and system generated annotations. We explore how this rich archive can be used to provide support for user navigation, in particular, for revisitation of pages within a navigation session. We describe the WebScout SessionNavigator feature that enhances the current browser functionality by providing both sequential and graph representation of the user navigation. It introduces the concept of a WebTrail which designates a sequence of navigation steps, started by a particular event, such as search, or explicit specification of a URL by typing into the address bar, or executing a link from a bookmark list. We present details of a user study that explores how users perceive and remember their navigation on the Web.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2003
EditorsJiming Liu, Nick Cercone, Matthias Klusch, Chunnian Liu, Ning Zhong
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages689-693
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)0769519326, 9780769519326
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2003 - Halifax, Canada
Duration: 13 Oct 200317 Oct 2003

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2003

Conference

ConferenceIEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2003
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityHalifax
Period13/10/0317/10/03

Keywords

  • Cache storage
  • Content management
  • Design optimization
  • Forward contracts
  • History
  • Navigation
  • Uniform resource locators
  • Web pages
  • Yarn

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