A history-centric approach for enhancing web browsing experiences

Authors:
Yoshinari Shirai;Yasuhiro Yamamoto;Kumiyo Nakakoji
Affiliations:
NTT Corporation, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, Japan & University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan & NTT Corporation, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, Japan
Venue:
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Browsing Web pages, which plays an important part of our daily creative knowledge work, often includes purposefully revisiting pages we have browsed before. Many of the existing tools and approaches for revisitation clearly distinguish the use of history from Web browsing. The approach presented in this paper blurs the distinction between browsing the Web and visiting stored pages in a personal Web browsing history database. The HCB (History-Centric Browsing) system allows a user to browse a previously visited Web page stored in the history database in the same way as browsing a page on the Web. The system associates pages from the database to the currently displayed page through three types of relevancies: temporal sequence, URL/location-based proximity, and content similarity. The HCB-stat, HCB-vis, and HCB-tempo components use the associations to enrich the current page-viewing experience.