Independent Web Navigation Model
There are various designs to improve website navigation. However, a fundamental issue is still not addressed in all these designs: the consistency of navigation models across different websites. In addition, almost all of the current designs are static and passive; users have to adapt their navigation behaviors to each model and follow it all the time on a particular website. This research proposes a new web navigation model to address these problems. The proposed solution models navigational information independently and presents it using a consistent and personalizable client interface, which also offers rich management functionalities and flexibility for users to easily adapt web navigation to their needs.
More details can be found in this working paper
. If you are interested,
you can also read these earlier paper or presentation:
2004, 2005
Prototype
A prototype was developed on the .Net 2.0 platform. Following are some screenshots selected.
1. 4 display styles/locations 2. Stylesheet (CSS) used
3. Treeview in floating panel
An earlier version of the prototype was presented at the Workshop of Information
Technology and Systems(WITS) 2006. [Demo Poster
]