Title :
z9: An Alternative Approach to Collaborative Navigation
Author :
Da Silva, André Rodrigues ; De Lima, Vera Lucia Strube
Author_Institution :
Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul
Abstract :
The search for relevant information on the Web is a personalized discovery process. In this process each person aggregates new information to the border of what he or she already knows. Finding relevant information is also related to the user history, being driven by his or her intentional selection of documents to access. This paper presents a collaborative navigation tool, called z9, whose main purpose is to selectively transfer anonymous navigation information among a group of users, based on identified user similarities. These similarities are the starting point for the presentation of exploration paths that potentially lead to relevant information
Keywords :
Internet; information retrieval; Web; collaborative navigation tool; information search; Aggregates; Collaboration; Collaborative tools; Crawlers; History; Indexing; Joining processes; Navigation; Prototypes; Search engines;
Conference_Titel :
Web Congress, 2006. LA-Web '06. Fourth Latin American
Conference_Location :
Cholula
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2693-4
DOI :
10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.40
