Overview and Preview Tools For Navigating the World-Wide Web (1999)
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@MISC{Brunk99overviewand,
author = {Benjamin D. Brunk and Benjamin D. Brunk and Animated Web Overviews},
title = {Overview and Preview Tools For Navigating the World-Wide Web},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
This paper examines the problems inherent in navigating the World-Wide Web. It discusses the work done by others in crafting techniques, software products, and research prototypes that attempt to improve the browsing experience through the application of information visualization in the form of sitemaps. This paper also describes an animated technique to generate previews and overviews of a web site in order to get a better understanding of its contents. The final section includes a technical description of an early prototype tool that uses this animated technique, with preliminary findings from an informal feasibility study involving 19 subjects. Keywords Web browsing; alternative user interfaces; web navigation; previews; overviews; web crawler; searching Context and Problem Statement The World-Wide Web is a constantly evolving maze of HTML, DHTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, CGI, Active Server Pages, Shockwave, Flash, and other means of generating hypertext content. It is an extremely ...
