Article

Following your colleagues' footprints: navigation support with trails in shared directories

Authors:

Erich Gams,

Sigi ReichAuthors Info & Claims

HYPERTEXT '04: Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

Pages 89 - 90

https://doi.org/10.1145/1012807.1012833

Published: 09 August 2004 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

Trails are a well-established concept to assist users in navigating through information spaces. However, most existing trail-based systems focus only on the World Wide Web and not on the users' overall information space, including corporate intranet shares or private file storage. We have adapted the trail approach specifically to fit shared directory scenarios. We describe an already developed prototype and report on results of a first user study, which indicate the usefulness of our approach.

References

[1]

DeRoure, D., Hall, W., Reich, S., Hill, G., Pikrakis, A., and Stairmand, M. Memoir - an open distributed framework for enhanced navigation of distributed information. Information Processing and Management 37 (2001), 53--74.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[2]

Dieberger, A. Supporting social navigation on the world wide web. Int. Journal of Human-Computer Studies 46, 6 (1997), 805--825.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[3]

Furuta, R., Shipman, F. M., Marshall, C. C., Brenner, D., and Hsieh, H.-W. Hypertext paths and the world wide web: Experiences with walden's paths. In Hypertext '97, UK (1997), pp. 167--176.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[4]

Gusfield, D. Algorithms on strings, trees, and sequences: computer science and computational biology. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[5]

Marchionini, G. Information-seeking strategies of novices using a full-text electronic encyclopedia. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 40, 1 (1989), 54--66.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[6]

Reich, S., and Gams, E. Trailist - focusing on document activity for assisting navigation. In Hypertext '01, DK (2001), pp. 29--30.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[7]

Wexelblat, A., and Maes, P. Footprints: History-rich tools for information foraging. In Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1999), pp. 270--277.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Farzan RBrusilovsky P(2018)Social NavigationSocial Information Access10.1007/978-3-319-90092-6_5(142-180)Online publication date: 3-May-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90092-6_5
Wong YZhao JElmqvist N(2015)Evaluating Social Navigation Visualization in Online Geographic MapsInternational Journal of Human-Computer Interaction10.1080/10447318.2014.95910631:2(118-127)Online publication date: 20-Jan-2015
https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2014.959106
Wong YElmqvist N(2014)CrowdsterProceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization10.1145/2669557.2669567(87-94)Online publication date: 10-Nov-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2669557.2669567

Index Terms

Following your colleagues' footprints: navigation support with trails in shared directories
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

Recommendations

Competitive advantage on the World Wide Web: a webmaster's guide
Special issue on the Web

As the importance of the World Wide Web continues to grow, firms are seeking innovative ways to leverage the technology for competitive advantage. Firms are implementing web-based systems for internal and external information dissemination and for ...
Using Web technologies in two MLS environments: a security analysis
ACSAC '97: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

Presents an analysis of the use of the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and other Web technologies for multi-level secure (MLS) systems that are connected to single-level network environments (e.g. Internet-like and intranet-like environments). ...
Supporting revisitation with contextual suggestions
JCDL '11: Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries

Web browsers provide only little support for users to revisit pages that they do not visit very often. We developed a browser toolbar that reminds users of visited pages related to the page that they currently viewing. The recommendation method combines ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

HYPERTEXT '04: Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

August 2004

284 pages

ISBN:1581138482

DOI:10.1145/1012807

General Chair:
Jim Whitehead
University of California, Santa Cruz
,
Program Chair:
David De Roure
University of Southampton

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 09 August 2004

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Article

Conference

HT04

Sponsor:

HT04: 15th Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia

August 9 - 13, 2004

CA, Santa Cruz, USA

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 378 of 1,158 submissions, 33%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

3
Total Citations
View Citations
259
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)0
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 02 Oct 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Farzan RBrusilovsky P(2018)Social NavigationSocial Information Access10.1007/978-3-319-90092-6_5(142-180)Online publication date: 3-May-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90092-6_5
Wong YZhao JElmqvist N(2015)Evaluating Social Navigation Visualization in Online Geographic MapsInternational Journal of Human-Computer Interaction10.1080/10447318.2014.95910631:2(118-127)Online publication date: 20-Jan-2015
https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2014.959106
Wong YElmqvist N(2014)CrowdsterProceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization10.1145/2669557.2669567(87-94)Online publication date: 10-Nov-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2669557.2669567

View Options

Get Access

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

Competitive advantage on the World Wide Web: a webmaster's guide

Using Web technologies in two MLS environments: a security analysis

Supporting revisitation with contextual suggestions