Mobrex: Visualizing Users´ Mobile Browsing Behaviors

Author

Burigat, Stefano ; Chittaro, Luca ; Ieronutti, Lucio

Author_Institution

Univ. of Udine, Udine

Volume

28

Issue

1

fYear

2008

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

32

Abstract

This paper deals with the Mobile Browsing Explorer (Mobrex) to give analysts a set of interactive visualizations that highlight various aspects of how users browse an information space. Here, we describe the tool and demonstrate its support of a user study of three browsing techniques for mobile maps. Although we mainly focus here on PDAs and mobile map browsing, Mobrex can easily support analysts studying user interaction with other information spaces and other devices, including mobile phones and desktop computers.

Keywords

data visualisation; human computer interaction; information retrieval; interactive devices; mobile computing; mobile handsets; notebook computers; user interfaces; Mobrex interactive visualization; PDA; desktop computers; mobile browsing explorer; mobile map browsing; mobile phones; mobile user browsing behavior; user interaction; Color; Data visualization; Displays; Information analysis; Mice; Mobile computing; Navigation; Spatiotemporal phenomena; Usability; Web pages; information visualization; map browsing; mobile interaction; small-screen devices; user studies;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCG.2008.13

Filename

4418746