Overview of Visualization Tools for Web Browser History Data
Nowadays, the Web has become one of the most widespread
platforms for information change and retrieval. As it becomes
easier to publish documents, as the number of users, and thus
publishers, increases and as the number of documents grows,
searching for information is turning into a cumbersome and timeconsuming
operation. Because of the loose interconnection
between documents, people have difficulty remembering where
they have been and returning to previously visited pages.
Navigation through the web faces problems of locating oneself
with respect to space and time. The idea of graphical assistance
navigation is to help users to find their paths in hyperspace by
adapting the style of link presentation to the goals, knowledge
and other characteristics of an individual user. We first introduce
the concepts related to web navigation; we then present an
overview of different graphical navigation tools and techniques.
We conclude by presenting a comparative table of these tools
based on some pertinent criteria.
Keywords: Web Browser, History Data, Visualization,Browsing Helpers
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Abdelhakim Herrouz
Department of Computer Science, University Kasdi Merbah of Ouargla, Algeria
Chabane Khentout
Laboratoire des Réseaux et des Systèmes Distribués, University Ferhat Abbas of Sétif, Algeria
Mahieddine Djoudi
Department XLIM-SIC UMR CNRS 7252 & TechNE Research Group, University of Poitiers - Téléport 2, Boulevard Marie et Pierre Curie, BP 30179, 86960 Futuroscope Cedex, France
Abdelhakim Herrouz
Department of Computer Science, University Kasdi Merbah of Ouargla, Algeria
Chabane Khentout
Laboratoire des Réseaux et des Systèmes Distribués, University Ferhat Abbas of Sétif, Algeria
Mahieddine Djoudi
Department XLIM-SIC UMR CNRS 7252 & TechNE Research Group, University of Poitiers - Téléport 2, Boulevard Marie et Pierre Curie, BP 30179, 86960 Futuroscope Cedex, France