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Abstract : |
Users of hypertext systems often find themselves eagerly following hypertext links deeper and deeper into a hypertext web, only to find themselves "lost " and unable find their way back to previously visited pages. As navigation aids to help users orient themselves in the web, browsers often provide a list of the documents a user has visited, a way to move forward and backward along previously traversed links, and a quick way to return to a home document. Still, users often have trouble re-visiting a page that was previously viewed in a session, especially after many invocations of the backtracking shortcuts. MosaicG is derivative work of NCSA Mosaic[1] version 2.5 which enhances the history keeping facility of the browser by providing a two dimensional view of the documents a user has visited in a session. It is intended as an easy to use aid in navigating a collection of hypertext documents. By presenting titles, URLs and thumbnail images of the documents a user has visited in a session, the Graphic History View allows a user to easily recognize a previously visited document and provides an easy way for the user to re-visit that document and analyze the structure of a set of hypertext documents. A postscript copy of this paper is available on-line:, |
