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
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UMEA: translating interaction histories into project contexts
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Two methods for auto-organizing personal web history
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
On a web browsing support system with 3d visualization
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
TaskTracer: a desktop environment to support multi-tasking knowledge workers
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Automatic identification of user interest for personalized search
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Personalized query expansion for the web
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Matching task profiles and user needs in personalized web search
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Contextual web history: using visual and contextual cues to improve web browser history
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Research trails: getting back where you left off
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Supporting revisitation with contextual suggestions
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
Time, topic and trawl: stories about how we reach our past
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
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We propose the concept of research trails to help web users create and reestablish context across fragmented research processes without requiring them to explicitly structure and organize the material. A research trail is an ordered sequence of web pages that were accessed as part of a larger investigation; they are automatically constructed by filtering and organizing users' activity history, using a combination of semantic and activity based criteria for grouping similar visited web pages. The design was informed by an ethnographic study of ordinary people doing research on the web, emphasizing a need to support research processes that are fragmented and where the research question is still in formation. This paper motivates and describes our algorithms for generating research trails. Research trails can be applied in several situations: as the underlying mechanism for a research task browser, or as feed to an ambient display of history information while searching. A prototype was built to assess the utility of the first option, a research trail browser.