Reading newspapers on the web with a refined history feature
not affiliated, Linz, Austria
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Human-Computer Interaction, World Wide Web and Web Science
- Keywords
- history feature, user interface, browser, JavaScript, WWW
- Copyright
- © 2016 Kopetzky
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Reading newspapers on the web with a refined history feature. PeerJ PrePrints 4:e1756v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1756v1
Abstract
Current web browser offer a history feature. Interestingly, this feature can still be refined. In this paper such a refinement is presented: the history of the seen. With this refinement not only clicked links are considered for the history but also links which only have been displayed to user. This is under the assumption that a link not followed will be less interesting in the future. By making the presentation of such links more inconspicuous, the cognitive burden on the users is reduced. A prototype implementation is shown for news sites, where not following a link the first time usually means that the link will not be followed in the future as well.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.