Following your colleagues' footprints: navigation support with trails in shared directories

  • Authors:
  • Erich Gams;Sigi Reich

  • Affiliations:
  • Salzburg Research, Austria;Salzburg Research, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Trails are a well-established concept to assist users in navigating through information spaces. However, most existing trail-based systems focus only on the World Wide Web and not on the users' overall information space, including corporate intranet shares or private file storage. We have adapted the trail approach specifically to fit shared directory scenarios. We describe an already developed prototype and report on results of a first user study, which indicate the usefulness of our approach.