Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

ABSTRACT The World Wide Web grows through a decentralized, almost anarchic process,
and this has resulted in a large hyperlinked corpus without the kind of logical organization …

Knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage for
organizations. Knowledge is a renewable, re-usable and accumulating asset of value to …

Annotation is a key way in which hypertexts grow and increase in value. This paper first
characterizes annotation according to a set of dimensions to situate a long-term study of a …

Inspired by Hill and Hollans original work [7], we have been developing a theory of
interaction history and building tools to apply this theory to navigation in a complex …

The apparent unruliness of contemporary hypertexts arises, in part, from our lack of a
vocabulary to describe hypertext structures. From observation of a variety of actual …

The visual appearance of a Web page influences the way a user will interact with the page.
Web page structural elements (such as text, tables, links, and images) and their …

This chapter discusses user interfaces for communication between human information
seekers and information retrieval systems. Information seeking is an imprecise process …

Annotation Technology is a systematized set of recommendations for design of successful
advanced annotation software covering the architectural, functional and user-interface …

The visual complexity of Web pages is much talked about;“complex Web pages are difficult
to use,” but often regarded as a subjective decision by the user. This subjective decision is of …