A system for generating user's chronological interest space from web browsing history

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Murakami, Harumi^{a; *} | Hirata, Takashi^b

Affiliations: [a] Graduate School for Creative Cities, Osaka City University, 3-3-138, Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 558-8585 Japan | [b] Japan Self Defense Force, Japan

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Tel./Fax: +81 6 6605 3375; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: We propose a method that helps users to understand their own interests by extracting terms from selected link texts and generating a new browsing history, and arranging those terms and Web-page icons on to the user's interest space in chronological order. We have implemented a prototype system based on this method. The system's performance was evaluated in two experiments, which revealed that (1) Japanese interest terms can be extracted from the user's selected link texts, (2) the interest-space browser displays the user's interest space on browsing the Web, and (3) the users can use this system to better understand their own interests, recall their past, and reorganize previously browsed Web pages.

DOI: 10.3233/KES-2004-8303

Journal: International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 149-160, 2004