Domain name based visualization of Web histories in a zoomable user interface

Author

Gandhi, Rajiv ; Kumar, Girish ; Bederson, B. ; Shneiderman, Ben

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

591

Lastpage

598

Abstract

Users of hypertext systems like the World Wide Web (WWW) often find themselves following hypertext links deeper and deeper, only to find themselves “lost” and unable to find their way back to the previously visited pages. We have implemented a Web browser companion called Domain Tree Browser (DTB) that builds a tree structured visual navigation history while browsing the Web. The Domain Tree Browser organizes the URLs visited based on the domain name of each URL and shows thumbnails of each page in a zoomable window

Keywords

data visualisation; hypermedia; information resources; online front-ends; user interfaces; Domain Tree Browser; URLs; Web browser companion; Web histories; World Wide Web; domain name; domain name based visualization; hypertext links; hypertext systems; thumbnails; tree structured visual navigation history; zoomable user interface; zoomable window; Computer science; Educational institutions; History; Navigation; Tree graphs; Uniform resource locators; User interfaces; Visualization; Web pages; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. 11th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0680-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2000.875085

Filename

875085