The World-Wide Inaccessible Web, Part 1: Browsing

Collaborative Browsing in the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW) is today the most successful service of the Internet. The richness of information available combined with easy access to this information makes it a premier information gathering tool for researchers and consumers, however, the model of today’s WWW does not include the users. The WWW is a purely information focused environment, consisting of documents and links between ...

Using Graphic History in Browsing the World Wide Web

Modeling the Browsing Behavior of World Wide Web Users

The World Wide Web is essential to general public nowadays. From a data analysis viewpoint, it provides rich opportunities to gather observational data on a large-scale. This paper focuses on modeling the behavior of visitors to an academic website. Although the conventional probability models, which were used by other literature for fitting in a commercial web site, capture the power law behav...

Characterizing Browsing Strategies in the World-Wide Web

This paper presents the results of a study conducted at Georgia Institute of Technology that captured client-side user events of NCSA’s XMosaic. Actual user behavior, as determined from clientside log file analysis, supplemented our understanding of user navigation strategies as well as provided real interface usage data. Log file analysis also yielded design and usability suggestions for WWW p...

Dynamic Neighborhoods - Browsing the World Wide Web Together

We introduce an original scheme that turns the World Wide Web (WWW) into a social place. Our vicinity-based approach is to show the Web’s user space to the people surfing on the WWW. Being aware of other Web surfers, people browsing the Web may invoke synchronous communication by a single mouse-click – surfing the Web turns from a lonely affair into a joint experience. We present the basic theo...