Integrating Back, Bookmarks and History Shaun Kaasten Saul Greenberg University of Calgary
Dec 19, 2015
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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