Title :
Web operation recorder and player
Author :
Aoki, Yoshinori ; Ando, Fumio ; Nakajima, Amane
Author_Institution :
IBM Res., Tokyo Res. Lab., Japan
Abstract :
This paper describes mechanisms for recording and playing back Web browser operations. A recorder detects a user´s operations on a Web browser and saves them as an event sequence called a scenario. A player plays back the scenario by controlling an actual Web browser. In addition, the recorder and player allow a user to add explanations to existing HTML contents by making “ink” annotations and attaching text, images and hyperlinks on a Web page. The recorder and player not only enable a Web site owner to gather users´ behavior at his or her Web site, but also make it easy to create a Web-based automatic presentation scenario, which can be played back later. The recorder and player run in a Java-enable Web browser. Users do not have to prepare the Web contents to be recorded; they can work with ordinary Web pages
Keywords :
hypermedia markup languages; information resources; online front-ends; HTML contents; Java-enable Web browser; Web browser operation playback; Web browser operation recording; Web site; Web-based automatic presentation scenario; event sequence; hyperlinks; images; scenario; text; Computer interfaces; Event detection; HTML; Information analysis; Java; Joining processes; Laboratories; Uniform resource locators; User interfaces; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2000. Proceedings. Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Iwate
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0568-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICPADS.2000.857735