The spatial metaphor for user interfaces: experimental tests of reference by location versus name
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
How people revisit web pages: empirical findings and implications for the design of history systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: World Wide Web usability
Information archiving with bookmarks: personal Web space construction and organization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Graphical multiscale Web histories: a study of padprints
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia : links, objects, time and space---structure in hypermedia systems: links, objects, time and space---structure in hypermedia systems
Data mountain: using spatial memory for document management
Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Footprints: history-rich tools for information foraging
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The tangled Web we wove: a taskonomy of WWW use
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using thumbnails to search the Web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keeping found things found on the web
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Popout prism: adding perceptual principles to overview+detail document interfaces
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What do web users do? An empirical analysis of web use
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Integrating back, history and bookmarks in web browsers
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pushing back: evaluating a new behaviour for the back and forward buttons in web browsers
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Two methods for auto-organizing personal web history
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Smartback: supporting users in back navigation
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Information search and re-access strategies of experienced web users
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Off the beaten tracks: exploring three aspects of web navigation
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
What do people recall about their documents?: implications for desktop search tools
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Web page revisitation revisited: implications of a long-term click-stream study of browser usage
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information re-retrieval: repeat queries in Yahoo's logs
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The re:search engine: simultaneous support for finding and re-finding
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Large scale analysis of web revisitation patterns
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Automatic generation of research trails in web history
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Here's what i did: sharing and reusing web activity with ActionShot
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A comparison of visual and textual page previews in judging the helpfulness of web pages
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
YouPivot: improving recall with contextual search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The design of a visual history tool to help users refind information within a website
ECIR'12 Proceedings of the 34th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Time, topic and trawl: stories about how we reach our past
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Design and implementation of a context-based media retrieval system
CVM'12 Proceedings of the First international conference on Computational Visual Media
Enhancing web revisitation by contextual keywords
ICWE'13 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Web Engineering
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While most modern web browsers offer history functionality, few people use it to revisit previously viewed web pages. In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of Contextual Web History (CWH), a novel browser history implementation which improves the visibility of the history feature and helps people find previously visited web pages. We present the results of a formative user study to understand what factors helped people in finding past web pages. From this, we developed CWH to be more visible to users, and supported search, browsing, thumbnails, and metadata. Combined, these relatively simple features outperformed Mozilla Firefox 3's built-in browser history function, and greatly reduced the time and effort required to find and revisit a web page.