A history-centric approach for enhancing web browsing experiences
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Visual history mechanism on mobile internet browser
Mobility '07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on mobile technology, applications, and systems and the 1st international symposium on Computer human interaction in mobile technology
MiniDiver: A Novel Mobile Media Playback Interface for Rich Video Content on an iPhoneTM
ICEC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Entertainment Computing
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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Abstract: Finding a previously visited page during web navigation is a very common and important process. Although most commercial browsers incorporate a history mechanism, when accessing pages that were recently visited users still rely mainly on the "Back" button. In this paper we studied the effectiveness of visually enhanced history browser mechanisms on web navigation. We used three different history mechanisms as the experiment treatments. Twenty-one college students were the subjects of the experimental trials. With a between subject design, three experimental groups were equally divided according to subject profiles. Users read and completed the given scenario. A quiz was given to measure user performance on the tested mechanism. At the end of the quiz, a subjective questionnaire was given to measure user satisfaction. The results showed that there is a significant statistical difference among the three mechanisms. The more visually enhanced history mechanism proved to be more effective in web browsing.