Usage-based visualization of web localities

  • Authors:
  • Boris Diebold;Michael Kaufmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Tübingen, Sand 13, 72076 Tübingen, Germany;Universität Tübingen, Sand 13, 72076 Tübingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • APVis '01 Proceedings of the 2001 Asia-Pacific symposium on Information visualisation - Volume 9
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The World-Wide Web has evolved into an extremely huge but "messy" information space which is hard to overview. Sitemaps as alternative views of Web sites have been proposed to assist the user in navigating the hyperspace. As Web localities are subject to frequent change and redesign, it is especially important to provide a system for automatic generation of such sitemaps from various data sources instead of creating them manually. In this paper we present a new usage-based navigation sitemap approach. We elaborate the necessary concepts of data extraction and path visualizations. Finally, we demonstrate the results of our implementation using the yFiles.