PageLinker: integrating contextual bookmarks within a browser

PageLinker is a browser extension that contextualises navigation by linking web pages together and allows navigation through a network of related web pages without prior planning. The design is based on extensive interviews with biologists, which highlighted their difficulties finding previously visited web pages. They found current browser tools inadequate, resulting in poorly organised bookmarks and rarely used history lists. In a four-week controlled field experiment, PageLinker significantly reduced time, page loads and mouse clicks. By presenting links in context, PageLinker facilitates web page revisitation, is less prone to bookmark overload and is highly robust to change. Author Keywords Biologists, Bookmarks, Browsers, Contextual bookmarks, PageLinker, Participatory design, Web Navigation, WWW ACM Classification Keywords D.2.2 [Design Tools & Techniques]: User Interfaces. H.5.2 [User Interfaces]: Evaluation/methodology, User-centered design. H.5.4 [Hypertext/Hypermedia]: ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Aurélien Tabard, Wendy E. Mackay, Nicolas Roussel, Catherine Letondal
• Keywords: Author Keywords Biologists, CHI 2007, Human Computer Interaction, Web Navigation, Web Page Revisitation