Abstract :
The Internet is a medium for education, entertainment,
communication, and personal expression. User behavior
has developed three main modalities for using thismedium
effectively—searching, browsing, and monitoring—which
are supported to different degrees by conventional tools.
Understanding the nature of the interaction allows us to
design and implement a system called Mitsukeru to support
browsing behaviors, while retaining the free-form
movements between other interaction styles. The system
uses agent-based modeling and look-ahead to provide
informative yet nonintrusive guidance to the user, and is
described in detail.
