Paper Info
Title
Supporting cooperative and personal surfing with a desktop assistant
Abstract
We motivate the use of desktop assistants in the context of web surfing and show how such a tool may b e used to support activities in both cooperative and personal surfing. By cooperative surfing we mean surfing by a community of users who choose to cooperatively and asynchronously build u p knowledge structures relevant t o their group. Specifically, we describe the design of an assistant called Vistabar, which lives on the Windows desktop and operates on the c urrently active web browser. Vistabar instances working for individual users s upport t he a uthoring of annotations and shared bo okmark hierarchies, and work with p rofiles of community interests to make findings highly available. Thus, they support a form of community memory. Vistabar also serves as a form of personal memory by indexing pages the user sees to assist in recall. We present rationale for the a ssistant's design, describe roles it could p lay to support surfing (including those mentioned above), and suggest efficient i mplementation strategies where appropriate.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1145/263407.263531
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
annotation,bookmarks,barcodes,collaboration,browserware,indexing,personal surfing,browser,asynchronous,www,desktop assistant,community knowledge,indexation
Asynchronous communication,World Wide Web,Annotation,Computer science,Search engine indexing,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-89791-881-9
29
9.19
References 
Authors
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hannes Marais171671.40
Krishna A. Bharat21211252.86