Visualising web visitations: A probabilistic approach

Geoff Ellis; Alan Dix

doi:10.1109/IV.2004.1320204

Visualising web visitations: A probabilistic approach

Geoff Ellis^*, Alan Dix

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper presents a technique, the Quantum Web Field, designed to give an ambient visualisation of the current activity on a web site. It uses the paths of past visitors to the site and a self-organising map to build a diffuse 'probabilistic' mapping of pages to cells in a 2D matrix, where highly traversed page-links tend to be closer to each other. The paths of current visitors appear as intelligible trails giving a sense of purposeful human activity rather than offering detailed analysis. The visualisation is not constrained by either the complexity or the number of pages in the site.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	599-604
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualization
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2004.1320204
Publication status	Published - 9 Aug 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings - Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation, IV 2004 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 14 Jul 2004 → 16 Jul 2004

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