Graphical Multiscale Web Histories: A Study of PadPrints

Hightower, Ron R.; Ring, Laura; Helfman, Jonathan I.; Bederson, Benjamin B.; Hollan, James D.

doi:10.1016/b978-155860915-0/50028-7

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“…For example, an eye-tracking study could more precisely investigate the effects of hoptrees and other navigation tools on cognitive load and lostness [26] during hierarchy exploration. Comparison of history tracking tools that are structured according to the information hierarchy, like hoptrees and breadcrumbs, against designs that are structured by the users' visit path as in [17], may also yield new insight.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For history tracking in web browsers, the MosaicG graphical history constructed a node-link representation of web browsing history with pages connected according to the order that they were visited by the user [16]. Similarly, PadPrints constructs a graphical hierarchy of pages that the user visits in their web browser [17]. PadPrints was found to reduce the number of page accesses and reduce the time taken to complete tasks requiring revisiting pages.…”

Section: History Trackingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hoptrees: Branching History Navigation for Hierarchies

Brooks

West

Aragon

et al. 2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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Abstract.Designing software for exploring hierarchical data sets is challenging because users can easily become lost in large hierarchies. We present a novel interface, the hoptree, to assist users with navigating large hierarchies. The hoptree preserves navigational history and context and allows one-click navigation to recently-visited locations. We describe the design of hoptrees and an implementation that we created for a tree exploration application. We discuss the potential for hoptrees to be used in a wide variety of hierarchy navigation scenarios. Through a controlled experiment, we compared the effectiveness of hoptrees to a breadcrumb navigation interface. Study participants overwhelmingly preferred the hoptree, with improved time-on-task with no difference in error rates.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: History Trackingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hoptrees: Branching History Navigation for Hierarchies

Brooks

West

Aragon

et al. 2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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“…In some cases, these tree views are coupled with additional list views that highlight the temporal order of visit, as the tree representations do not reflect the temporal succession of events. Additionally, in many cases screenshots of the Web pages are used as thumbnails embedded in the nodes to support the recognition process [11,13,21]. Still, all these approaches represent a Web page only once in the tree, even if it is visited multiple times.…”

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tools like MosaicG [11], PadPrints [13], Organic Bookmark Management [21], WebMap [9] and Domain Tree Browser [12] use one or multiple vertical or horizontal 2D trees to represent the domain-structure of the navigated Web sites. In some cases, these tree views are coupled with additional list views that highlight the temporal order of visit, as the tree representations do not reflect the temporal succession of events.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Interactive Visualization for Tabbed Browsing Behavior Analysis

Cernea

Truderung

Kerren

et al. 2014

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. Web browsers are at the core of online user experience, enabling a wide range of Web applications, like communication, games, entertainment, development, etc. Additionally, given the variety and complexity of online-supported tasks, users have started parallelizing and organizing their online browser sessions by employing multiple browser windows and tabs. However, there are few solutions that support analysts and casual users in detecting and extracting patterns from these parallel browsing histories. In this paper we introduce WebComets, an interactive visualization for exploring multi-session multi-user parallel browsing logs. After highlighting visual and functional aspects of the system, we introduce a motif-based contextual search for enabling the filtering and comparison of user navigation patterns. We further highlight the functionality of WebComets with a use case. Our investigations suggest that parallel browser history visualization can o↵er better insight into user tabbed browsing behavior and support the recognition of online navigation patterns.

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“…Webmap [9] and PadPrints [15] were two of the first graph-based tools. They used spanning trees to present web browsing history.…”

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confidence: 99%