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Tauscher, L. (1996)
Supporting World Wide Web Navigation Through History Mechanisms. In CHI 96 Workshop: HCI and the Web, Vancouver, BC, April.
Type: Refereed workshop paper.

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Abstract.
My research concerns navigational history mechanisms within graphical WWW browsers. I believe that improved history support within browsers can reduce the cognitive and physical burdens of navigating to and recalling previously visited Web pages. A major component of my research involved an empirical study in which I collected data from 23 subjects over a period of 6 weeks as they used an instrumented version of Mosaic v2.6. My overall objective was to identify patterns in revisits to pages; similar patterns were identified in previous research into UNIX command reuse, and other hypertext systems.