The information visualizer, an information workspace
CHI '91 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The WebBook and the Web Forager: an information workspace for the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the 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
Information archiving with bookmarks: personal Web space construction and organization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Data mountain: using spatial memory for document management
Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
TopicShop: enhanced support for evaluating and organizing collections of Web sites
UIST '00 Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Keeping found things found on the web
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management
How knowledge workers use the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
WebScout: Support for Revisitation of Web Pages within a Navigation Session
WI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence
Information search and re-access strategies of experienced web users
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
The impact of task on the usage of web browser navigation mechanisms
GI '06 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2006
A field study characterizing Web-based information-seeking tasks
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The ScratchPad: sensemaking support for the web
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
SearchBar: a search-centric web history for task resumption and information re-finding
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploring multi-session web tasks
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Context-based page unit recommendation for web-based sensemaking tasks
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Building support for multi-session tasks
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How do people find information on a familiar website?
Proceedings of the 23rd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Celebrating People and Technology
Multitasking bar: prototype and evaluation of introducing the task concept into a browser
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A study of tabbed browsing among mozilla firefox users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A task-focused approach to support sharing and interruption recovery in web browsers
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A comparison of visual and textual page previews in judging the helpfulness of web pages
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
The notion of overview in information visualization
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Clustering web pages to facilitate revisitation on mobile devices
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
The future is in the past: designing for exploratory search
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
AutoWeb: automatic classification of mobile web pages for revisitation
MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
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Conducting research using the web is often an iterative process of collecting, comparing and contrasting information. Not surprisingly, web-based research tasks habitually span multiple web sessions and involve considerable web page revisitation. Such tasks are not only carried out by researchers, but also by casual web users who, for example, plan vacations and large purchases. Despite the prominence of this activity among web users, existing tools support it poorly. We propose an alternative approach, whereby web-based research tasks are facilitated by a web workspace which represents collected URLs with web page thumbnails. A prototype of our design was developed and studied in an evaluation with 12 participants. Each of the participants adopted the workspace approach instinctively: the workspace was used for web page revisitation, web page comparison, collection overview, cross-session task continuation, and continuous task focus.