Supporting World Wide Web Navigation Through History Mechanisms

Tauscher, L. (1996)
Supporting World Wide Web Navigation Through History Mechanisms. In CHI 96 Workshop: HCI and the Web, Vancouver, BC, April.

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Abstract

My research concerns navigational history mechanisms within graphical WWW browsers. I believe that improved history support within browsers can reduce the cognitive and physical burdens of navigating to and recalling previously visited Web pages. A major component of my research involved an empirical study in which I collected data from 23 subjects over a period of 6 weeks as they used an instrumented version of Mosaic v2.6. My overall objective was to identify patterns in revisits to pages; similar patterns were identified in previous research into UNIX command reuse, and other hypertext systems.

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@INCOLLECTION { 1996-WebNavigation.ChiWorkshop,
CLASS = { WORKSHOP },
AUTHOR = { Tauscher, L. },
TITLE = { Supporting World Wide Web Navigation Through History Mechanisms },
BOOKTITLE = { CHI 96 Workshop: HCI and the Web },
ADDRESS = { Vancouver, BC },
YEAR = { 1996 },
MONTH = { April },
}