Quantum Web fields and molecular meanderings: Visualising Web visitations

Geoff Ellis*, Alan Dix

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper describes two visualisation algorithms that give an impression of current activity on a web site. Both focus on giving a sense of the trail of individual visitors within the web space and showing their navigation paths. Past web activity is used to produce a spatial mapping of pages, which results in highly traversed page links lying close together in the 2D visualisation space. Pages visited by typical individual visitors thus form intelligible paths when plotted in the visualisation space. Both techniques attempt to enhance user awareness and experience, but they differ in their balance between utility and aesthetics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2004
Pages197-200
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 May 2004
Externally publishedYes
EventWorking Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2004 - Gallipoli, Italy
Duration: 25 May 200428 May 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI

Conference

ConferenceWorking Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2004
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityGallipoli
Period25/05/0428/05/04

Keywords

  • Awareness
  • Self-organising map
  • Web visualisation

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