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Supporting revisitation with contextual suggestions

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Web browsers provide only little support for users to revisit pages that they do not visit very often. We developed a browser toolbar that reminds users of visited pages related to the page that they currently viewing. The recommendation method combines ranking with propagation methods. A user evaluation shows that on average 22.7% of the revisits were triggered by the toolbar, a considerable change on the participants' revisitation routines. In this paper we discuss the value of the recommendations and the implications derived from the evaluation.

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JCDL '11: Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
June 2011
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ISBN:9781450307444
DOI:10.1145/1998076
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  1. navigation support
  2. recommendation
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