Contextual web history: Using visual and contextual cues to improve web browser history

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1457-1466

  Won, Sungjoon Steve ^a   Jin, Jing ^a   Hong, Jason I ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Re finding; Revisitation; Web browser; Web history

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL CUE; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; HISTORY FUNCTIONS; MOZILLA FIREFOX; RE VISITATIONS; RE-FINDING; USER STUDY; WEB HISTORY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; WEBSITES;

WEB BROWSERS;

EID: 84868313701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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