No Going Back: An Interactive Visualization Application for Trailblazing on the Web

TY - GEN

T1 - No Going Back

T2 - Information Visualisation, 2008. IV '08. 12th International Conference

AU - Power, C.

AU - McQuillan, I.

AU - Petrie, H.

AU - Kennaugh, P.

AU - Daley, M.

AU - Wozniak, G.

PY - 2008/7/1

Y1 - 2008/7/1

N2 - This paper presents the design of a new web browser, the Tree Trailblazer, which allows users to browse the web while maintaining a visual record of their exploration path, or trail, through the information space. This design enhances the backtracking aspects of web browsing over current designs by providing visual cues regarding the pages related to the page being viewed, providing users with an understanding of their position in the trail. This design also helps users blaze new trails off a page by allowing them to open previews of pages off of the currently viewed page. The scenario based design process that was used to construct the browser is discussed in conjunction with the initial prototype implementation. A formative user evaluation of this prototype showed this browser design to be very easy to learn and highly usable, with particular attention being paid to aspects of the tree visualization.

AB - This paper presents the design of a new web browser, the Tree Trailblazer, which allows users to browse the web while maintaining a visual record of their exploration path, or trail, through the information space. This design enhances the backtracking aspects of web browsing over current designs by providing visual cues regarding the pages related to the page being viewed, providing users with an understanding of their position in the trail. This design also helps users blaze new trails off a page by allowing them to open previews of pages off of the currently viewed page. The scenario based design process that was used to construct the browser is discussed in conjunction with the initial prototype implementation. A formative user evaluation of this prototype showed this browser design to be very easy to learn and highly usable, with particular attention being paid to aspects of the tree visualization.

KW - Tree Trailblazer

KW - Web browser

KW - Web trailblazing

KW - World Wide Web

KW - interactive visualization

KW - tree visualization

KW - Internet

KW - Web design

KW - data visualisation

KW - online front-ends

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=51749125244&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/IV.2008.64

DO - 10.1109/IV.2008.64

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-0-7695-3268-4

SP - 133

EP - 142

BT - Information Visualisation, 2008. IV '08. 12th International Conference

PB - IEEE

Y2 - 9 July 2008 through 11 July 2008

ER -