SmartBack: Supporting users in back navigation

Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings, WWW2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 63-71

  Milic Frayling, Natasa ^a   Jones, Rachel ^b   Rodden, Kerry ^c   Smyth, Gavin ^a   Blackwell, Alan ^d   Sommerer, Ralph ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Instrata Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Back navigation; Browsing; Navigation; Revisitation; Usability study; Web trails; Web usage

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; ONLINE SEARCHING; PERFORMANCE; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WEB BROWSERS;

BACK NAVIGATION; REVISITATION; USABILITY STUDY; WEB TRAILS; WEB USAGE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 19944406835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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