Where have you been from here? Trials in hypertext systems (original) (raw)

Integrating the web and the world: contextual trails on the move

ACM Conference on Hypertext, 2004

This paper presents Garnet, a novel spatial hypertext interface to a digital library. Garnet supports both information structuring -via spatial hypertext -and traditional information seeking -via a digital library. A user study of Garnet is reported, together with an analysis of how the organizing work done by users in a spatial hypertext workspace could support later information seeking. The use of Garnet during the study is related to both digital library and spatial hypertext research. Spatial hypertexts support the detection of implicit document groups in a user's workspace. The study also investigates the degree of similarity found in the full text of documents within such document groups.

The TrailTRECer Framework: Applying Open Hypermedia Concepts to Trails

J. UCS, 2002

Abstract: Being lost in space and overloaded with information are two key problems users are confronted with, when searching for appropriate information. Trails built from information about the users' browsing paths and activities, are an established approach to assist users in navigating vast information spaces. However, existing trailbased systems are focusing on browsers only and therefore do not fully exploit the notion of trails. The TrailTRECer framework addresses these issues by being open to any application and any activity. The ...

Automatic generation of research trails in web history

Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces - IUI '10, 2010

We propose the concept of research trails to help web users create and reestablish context across fragmented research processes without requiring them to explicitly structure and organize the material. A research trail is an ordered sequence of web pages that were accessed as part of a larger investigation; they are automatically constructed by filtering and organizing users' activity history, using a combination of semantic and activity based criteria for grouping similar visited web pages. The design was informed by an ethnographic study of ordinary people doing research on the web, emphasizing a need to support research processes that are fragmented and where the research question is still in formation. This paper motivates and describes our algorithms for generating research trails. Research trails can be applied in several situations: as the underlying mechanism for a research task browser, or as feed to an ambient display of history information while searching. A prototype was built to assess the utility of the first option, a research trail browser.

Memoir-software agents for finding similar users by trails

PAAM98-The Third …, 1998

Researchers working with vast quantities of information in a geographically distributed manner are often confronted with problems of nding relevant information as well as colleagues with related interests. The MEMOIR project aims at assisting this collaboration by applying agent technology to user trails and documents. MEMOIR is an open architecture based on the existing Web infrastructure; in contrast to the Web, we treat links and trails as rst class objects. Agents mine users' trails and links and also perform resource discovery tasks such as searching the Web. This paper describes the design, communication mechanism and implementation of the MEMOIR agent system which is currently being trialed in three end-user organisations.

The TrailTRECer Framework-A Platform for Trail-Enabled Recommender Applications

2002

In their everyday work people are confronted with ever growing amounts of information and thus often feel overloaded with data. Trails, built from information about the users' browsing paths and activities, are an established approach to assist users in navigating vast information spaces and finding appropriate information. While existing systems focus on web browsers only, we argue that trails can be generated by any application.