Navigating in hyperspace

Rivlin, Ehud; Botafogo, Rodrigo A.; Shneiderman, Ben

doi:10.1145/175235.175242

Cited by 86 publications

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“…Such technologies as direct guidance, hiding, and annotation also can be used to adapt hypermedia maps, but all these technologies do not change the form or the structure of maps. Human-computer interaction research offers a number of techniques to adapt the structure and the form of various kinds of networks, including hypermedia maps (Furnas, 1986;Mukherjea, Foley & Hudson, 1995;Rivlin, Botafogo & Shneidermann, 1994). However, most of these ideas have not been applied yet in adaptive hypermedia systems.…”

Section: Adaptive Navigation Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methods and Techniques of Adaptive Hypermedia

Brusilovsky¹

1998

Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia

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Adaptive hypermedia is a new direction of research within the area of adaptive and user model-based interfaces. Adaptive hypermedia (AH) systems build a model of the individual user and apply it for adaptation to that user, for example, to adapt the content of a hypermedia page to the user's knowledge and goals, or to suggest the most relevant links to follow. AH systems are used now in several application areas where the hyperspace is reasonably large and where a hypermedia application is expected to be used by individuals with different goals, knowledge and backgrounds. This paper is a review of existing work on adaptive hypermedia. The paper is centered around a set of identified methods and techniques of AH. It introduces several dimensions of classification of AH systems, methods and techniques and describes the most important of them.

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Section: Adaptive Navigation Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methods and Techniques of Adaptive Hypermedia

Brusilovsky¹

1998

Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia

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568

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“…A set of tools that aid the construction of maps by performing a structural analysis of the graph topology is described in [57]. One such tool is an hierarchical structure that can be imposed on the web graph, where its root is chosen to be a central node whose distance to other nodes is relatively small.…”

Section: Navigation Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating the World Wide Web

Levene

Wheeldon

2004

Web Dynamics

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Summary. Navigation (colloquially known as "surfing") is the activity of following links and browsing web pages. This is a time intensive activity engaging all web users seeking information. We often get "lost in hyperspace" when we lose the context in which we are browsing, giving rise to the infamous navigation problem. So, in this age of information overload we need navigational assistance to help us find our way through the tangled web of pages and links. Search engines partially solve this problem by locating relevant documents and finding "good" starting points for navigation, but more navigational assistance is needed to guide users through and between web sites. We present a model for navigation which has enabled us to develop several tools and algorithms for helping users with their navigation difficulties. Our point of view is that to help understand how users navigate the web topology we can attach probabilities to links giving rise to a probabilistic automaton, which can also be viewed as a Markov chain. These probabilities have two interpretations, namely, they can denote the proportion of times a user (or a group of users) followed a link, or alternatively they can denote the relevance (or expected utility) of following a link.We present a new metric for measuring the navigational potential of a web page, called the potential gain. This metric is used to find "good" starting point for an algorithm we describe in detail, called the Best Trail algorithm, which semiautomates web navigation by deriving relevant trails given a user query. We also present techniques we have developed in the area of web usage mining, detailing our algorithms for analysing records of trails that emerge from either an individual user or a group of users through navigation within the web graph over a period a time.

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“…32 Rivlin et al offer a similar sentiment. 33 This visual communication of structure has the potential to allow the audience to better understand the highlevel concepts of a presentation and properly fit them into their own mental frameworks. Restated, the audience may be better able to incorporate the new knowledge with existing knowledge.…”

Section: Meaningful Spatial Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Zoomable User Interfaces as a Medium for Slide Show Presentations

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Bederson

2002

Information Visualization

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The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab College Park, MD 20742 PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY ACRONYM(S)AFRL/SNAR SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY REPORT NUMBER(S) AFRL-SN-WP -TP -2003-103 DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENTApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited. This report contains color. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES Published in ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 Words)In this paper, the authors propose Zoomable User Interfaces as an alternative presentation medium to address several common presentation problems. Zoomable User Interfaces offer new techniques for managing multiple versions of a presentation, providing interactive presentation navigation, and distinguishing levels of detail. These zoomable presentations may also offer several cognitive benefits over their commercial slide show counterparts. The authors also introduce CounterPoint, a tool to simplify the creation and delivery of zoomable presentations, discuss the techniques they have used to make authoring and navigation manageable in the multidimensional space. Lastly, some of the visualization principles compiled by the authors for designing these types of presentations are presented. SUBJECT TERMSPresentations, Jazz, PowerPoint, spatial hypertext , Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) AbstractIn this paper, the authors propose Zoomable User Interfaces as an alternative presentation medium to address several common presentation problems. Zoomable User Interfaces offer new techniques for managing multiple versions of a presentation, providing interactive presentation navigation, and distinguishing levels of detail. These zoomable presentations may also offer several cognitive benefits over their commercial slide show counterparts. The authors also introduce CounterPoint, a tool to simplify the creation and delivery of zoomable presentations, discuss the techniques they have used to make authoring and navigation manageable in the multidimensional space. Lastly, some of the visualization principles compiled by the authors for designing these types of presentations are presented.

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Navigating in hyperspace

Cited by 86 publications

References 15 publications

Methods and Techniques of Adaptive Hypermedia

Methods and Techniques of Adaptive Hypermedia

Navigating the World Wide Web

Zoomable User Interfaces as a Medium for Slide Show Presentations

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