Integrating Back, Bookmarks and History Shaun Kaasten Saul Greenberg University of Calgary.

Integrating Back, Bookmarks and History

Shaun KaastenSaul Greenberg

University of Calgary

The MessageA single system can integrate back,

bookmarks, and history

Revisiting

• People constantly revisit web pages

• Percentage of navigations:• 58% (Tauscher, Greenberg, 1997) • 81% (Cockburn, McKenzie, 2000)

1995 Web browser Study

History1%

Back41%

Bookmark2%

Other4%

Hyperlinks52%

Catledge, Pitkow

1997 Web Browser Study

History1%

Other (Open

local, New Window, Forward,

Reload…)

26%

Back30%

Bookmark2%

Hyperlinks41%

Tauscher, Greenberg

Why Don’t People Use Bookmarks and History?

• Instead, relying on simpler methods of revisiting

Too Many Different Models

Page Representation

Managing Bookmark Collections

Abrams, Baecker and Chignell, 1998

Back Button Confusion

A

B

C

I

Cockburn &Jones,1996

I

A

Back Button Confusion

Cockburn &Jones,1996

Integrated System

Recency ordered list

Dog ears

Dynamic Query

Thumbnail images

The MessageA single system can integrate back, bookmarks, and history

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