Dashboard - a novel approach to re-find information in a website through building personalized navigational menus

Author

Biswas, Prosunjit ; Debnath, Madhuri ; Ghosh, Subarna ; Rahim, Sifatur ; Mahamud, Asfak ; Chowdhury, Nataraj

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

22-24 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

173

Lastpage

178

Abstract

Re-visitation or re-finding information in a website is a very frequent activity in web browsing. When a user re-visits a website especially after a long time, she encounters some problems among which being oblivious about the information structure of the site is very prominent. Another problem is that in a website, users have no way to organize the information space or the navigational structure of the website. In this paper, we have proposed a novel approach named Dashboard which supports building custom navigational menus system and allows each user build her own hierarchical information structure. We have also demonstrated how this new approach helps quickly re-finding information on re-visitation of a website.

Keywords

Web sites; human computer interaction; information retrieval; Dashboard; Web browsing; Website; hierarchical information structure; information refinding; information revisitation; navigational structure; personalized navigational menus; Engines; Navigation; Human Computer Interaction; Personalization; Re-visitation; Web Navigation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2011 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-907-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCITechn.2011.6164778

Filename

6164778