A community-based Web browsing system

Author

Toyama, Daisuke ; Kakimoto, Masumi ; Yoshitaka, Atsuo ; Hirakawa, Mkahito

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Eng., Hiroshima Univ., Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

320

Lastpage

327

Abstract

Current forms of Web browsers do not adequately reflect the current situation of explosive increase of Web space. The user is still forced to access the Web space page by page. We propose a Web browsing method based on communities. A community is a collection of Web sites which are related to each other. Unlike the conventional page-oriented search engines/browsers, the proposed interactive visualization system enables the user to see not only the related Web sites but also communities in exploring the ever growing Web space. This helps him/her to grasp an overall structure of the target space. Results of a user test shows that the system is powerful and useful

Keywords

Internet; data visualisation; information resources; information retrieval; online front-ends; Internet; Web browsers; Web sites; World Wide Web; community-based Web browsing system; interactive visualization system; page-oriented search engines; user test; Data engineering; Database systems; Explosives; Laboratories; Search engines; Space exploration; Visualization; Web page design; Web pages; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments, 2001. Proceedings IEEE Symposia on

Conference_Location

Stresa

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7198-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HCC.2001.995280

Filename

995280