Supporting command reuse: empirical foundations and principles
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
Revisitation patterns in World Wide Web navigation
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
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
The lifestreams software architecture
The lifestreams software architecture
Information archiving with bookmarks: personal Web space construction and organization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Visualization components for persistent conversations
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
Capturing window attributes for extending web browsing history records
KES'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part I
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Many user interfaces include history lists that help users retrieve temporally ordered information such as previously visited web pages, email messages, and recently used files. Two main types of history lists are widely used. The first type, typified by Netscape Navigator's history list, provides a linear temporally ordered list. The second type, typified by Microsoft Internet Explorer's history list, provides a hierarchical structure based on temporal chucks such as "Today" and "Last Week" at the top level, alphabetically ordered websites at the second level, and alphabetically ordered pages at the lowest level. Despite the wide use of these different types of list, we are unaware of research into their relative merits. This paper describes an experiment that investigates the efficiency of retrieval from four different types of history lists, derived from the two main alternatives described above. The results indicate that simple linear ordering of information is superior to more sophisticated structures.