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Extended memory (xMem) of web interactions

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Finding a previously visited page during a Web navigation is avery common and important kind of interaction. Most commercialbrowsers incorporate history mechanisms, which typically aresimple indexes of visited pages, sorted according to the timedimension. Such mechanisms are not very effective and are quitefar from giving users the impression of a semantically aware,long-term memory, as it is available to the human brain. Inparticular they lack associative, semantic-based mechanisms thatare essential for supporting information retrieval. This paperintroduces xMem (eXtended Memory Navigation) as a new method toaccess users' navigation history, based upon semantic andassociative access. Its aim is to emulate some of the features ofthe human memory, so as to give users a better understanding ofthe context of their searches, by exploiting semantic cuescharacterizing contents of visited pages.

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ICWE '06: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Web engineering
July 2006
384 pages
ISBN:1595933522
DOI:10.1145/1145581
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  • (2009)Modelling Safe Interface Interactions in Web ApplicationsProceedings of the 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_29(387-400)Online publication date: 10-Nov-2009
  • (2007)Comparing episodic and semantic interfaces for task boundary identificationProceedings of the 2007 conference of the center for advanced studies on Collaborative research10.1145/1321211.1321235(229-243)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2007

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