Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
Which way now? Analysing and easing inadequacies in WWW navigation
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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
The tangled Web we wove: a taskonomy of WWW use
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A taxonomy of web site traversal patterns and structures
Communications of the AIS
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
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
Smartback: supporting users in back navigation
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Manipulating history in generative hypermedia
Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Associating search and navigation behavior through log analysis: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Off the beaten tracks: exploring three aspects of web navigation
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
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
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
Not quite the average: An empirical study of Web use
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Back vs. stack: training the correct mental model affects web browsing
Behaviour & Information Technology
A new approach for a proxy-level web caching mechanism
Decision Support Systems
Contextual web history: using visual and contextual cues to improve web browser history
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Location and time do matter: A long tail study of website requests
Decision Support Systems
WebSurface: an interface for co-located collaborative information gathering
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
A study of tabbed browsing among mozilla firefox users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Aural browsing on-the-go: listening-based back navigation in large web architectures
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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The Back button on web browsers is one of the world's most heavily used user interface components, yet its behaviour is commonly misunderstood. This paper describes the evaluation of a "temporal" alternative to the normal "stack-based" behaviour of Back and Forward. The main difference of the temporal scheme is that it maintains a complete list of previously visited pages. The evaluation compares the efficiency of the stack and temporal schemes in an "out of the box" scenario in which participants were asked to use a "new" version of a commercial browser without any explanation of the presence or absence of new features. This scenario allows us to predict the likely usability impact if commercial browsers were released supporting the temporal scheme. The results showed that the relative efficiency of the two schemes differed across different types of navigational task. In particular, the temporal system poorly supported backtracking to parent pages, but performed better for more distant navigation tasks. The temporal scheme also caused extreme usage patterns, with the subjects either solving tasks very efficiently or very inefficiently, depending on whether they used the Back menu. This observation indicates that adaptations of the temporal system that improve the effectiveness of the Back menu may enhance web navigation.