Footprints: history-rich tools for information foraging

  • Authors:
  • Alan Wexelblat;Pattie Maes

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Inspired by Hill and Hollans original work [7], we have beendeveloping a theory of interaction history and building tools toapply this theory to navigation in a complex information space. Wehave built a series of tools - map, paths, annota- tions andsignposts - based on a physical-world navigation metaphor. Thesetools have been in use for over a year. Our user study involved acontrolled browse task and showed that users were able to get thesame amount of work done with significantly less effort.