Title
Beyond the usual suspects: context-aware revisitation support
Abstract
A considerable amount of our activities on the Web involves revisits to pages or sites. Reasons for revisiting include active monitoring of content, verification of information, regular use of online services, and reoccurring tasks. Browsers support for revisitation is mainly focused on frequently and recently visited pages. In this paper we present a dynamic browser toolbar that provides recommendations beyond these usual suspects, balancing diversity and relevance. The recommendation method used is a combination of ranking and propagation methods. Experimental outcomes show that this algorithm performs significantly better than the baseline method. Further experiments address the question whether it is more appropriate to recommend specific pages or rather (portal pages of) Web sites. We conducted two user studies with a dynamic toolbar that relies on our recommendation algorithm. In this context, the outcomes confirm that users appreciate and use the contextual recommendations provided by the toolbar.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1995966.1995974
HT
Keywords
Field
DocType
recommendation algorithm,propagation method,usual suspect,context-aware revisitation support,dynamic browser toolbar,browsers support,active monitoring,regular use,recommendation method,dynamic toolbar,contextual recommendation
World Wide Web,Ranking,Computer science,Multimedia,User studies,Active monitoring,Toolbar
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.66
35
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ricardo Kawase1576.34
George Papadakis218317.69
Eelco Herder358655.28
Wolfgang Nejdl46633556.13