Paper Info
Title
Effective browsing and serendipitous discovery with an experience-infused browser
Abstract
In the digital age, users can have perfect recall of their online experiences. In this paper, we explore how this recall can be leveraged during web browsing. We have built a system called the Experience-Infused Browser that indexes a user's digital history such as email and chat archives. As the user browses the web, it observes the contents of pages viewed, and appropriately highlights named entities on the page that the user has encountered in the past. This browser has two benefits. First, it highlights terms on the page that occur frequently in the user's communications, effectively personalizing the page for the user. Second, the system can remind the user of names that he has encountered in the past but may not remember. We evaluated how users reacted to the browser during organic web browsing. Our users have reported that it was useful on crowded web pages to surface content that they otherwise may have missed, and in recalling serendipitous connections to people that they had forgotten. Most of our users said they would use the browser beyond the experimental study, indicating that they derived clear benefit from it.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2166966.2166994
IUI
Keywords
Field
DocType
clear benefit,experience-infused browser,perfect recall,serendipitous discovery,effective browsing,crowded web page,experimental study,digital history,digital age,web browsing,chat archives,organic web browsing,web pages,personalization,indexation,annotation
Static web page,Framing (World Wide Web),World Wide Web,Web page,Computer science,Web navigation,Multimedia,Recall,Client-side scripting,Digital history,Personalization
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.48
17
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sudheendra Hangal153635.73
Abhinay Nagpal251.70
Monica S. Lam35585705.61