FINDING AND REFINDING WEB PAGES IN CONTEXT - A Tree-based Model of Web History

David Briffa, Chris Staff

2011

Abstract

A modern challenge for the World Wide Web (Web) is not of just finding information without getting ‘lost’ in hyperspace, but also re-finding it efficiently. Web Nav is an integrated navigation system that combines both history and page recommendations into one context based tool. Web Nav’s framework signifies a paradigm shift in the viewing of history from a linear stack-based system to a hierarchal tree-based system. Web Nav was evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively, analysing 13 users’ activity over a seven day period. The results are mixed but there is sufficient evidence to suggest tree-based views of history can be beneficial: to allow users to revisit web pages in context; to show user sessions as trees; and to automatically generate queries based on session contexts to recommend web pages.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Briffa D. and Staff C. (2011). FINDING AND REFINDING WEB PAGES IN CONTEXT - A Tree-based Model of Web History . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8425-51-5, pages 426-429. DOI: 10.5220/0003401004260429

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist11,
author={David Briffa and Chris Staff},
title={FINDING AND REFINDING WEB PAGES IN CONTEXT - A Tree-based Model of Web History},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2011},
pages={426-429},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003401004260429},
isbn={978-989-8425-51-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - FINDING AND REFINDING WEB PAGES IN CONTEXT - A Tree-based Model of Web History
SN - 978-989-8425-51-5
AU - Briffa D.
AU - Staff C.
PY - 2011
SP - 426
EP - 429
DO - 10.5220/0003401004260429