Interaction and visualization supporting Web browsing patterns

Provides advanced visualization and interaction paradigms to support Web browsing through the intensive use of bookmarks, navigation history and best-of lists. Our approach is motivated by past studies of Web browsing patterns that proved the usefulness of such tools even though standard browsers provide very few interaction and visualization features for them. In this paper, we first motivate our work and present our main visualization and interaction paradigms. We then present the architecture we used to integrate interactive visualization with normal Web navigation. We then review lessons learned. Further, we report the results of a preliminary comparative user study conducted to evaluate the effect of the use of our visualization and interaction techniques on user performances