tabularium presentation
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Nita Chen, Breeawn Cherry, Joanna Huang, NancyLam, Raquel Portillo, John Rauch, Melissa Wedeen
Tab browsing is more than just utilizing tabs Interview user population: college students
Interviews: 49 interviews total◦ 25 Contextual interviews◦ 7 task-oriented contextual interviews (vacation plans)◦ 17 prototype interviews
Two categories of users◦Multi-tabs user vs. few-tabs user◦ Browser-savvy user vs. non-browser-savvy user
Alex: Multiple Tab user Karen: Few Tab User
Amy: Non Browser Savvy UserJordan: Browser SavvyUser
Difficulty keeping track of tabs when open toomany
Accidentally closing tabs◦Do not know how to recover tabs◦Unable to recover tabs and cannot recall what was
previously opened Inefficiency of search history◦Organization in Search History not user-friendly◦ Past tabs can be found using search engines (ex.
Google)
Tab usage varies among users People like to remember their websites Multiple tabs can cause confusion Users do not like pop up windows Efficiency is important to users
Goal: to improve activity history functionality inbrowser usage
Proposed product: annotated version of searchhistory
Product audience: multi-tab users that frequentlyengage in research-type activities◦ Ex. researchers, college students, etc
Creation and Revolution
Organization Visual appeal Flexibility
Users: organize fictional activity history withassociated icons/website screenshots
Prefer website screenshots to icons Prefer to have relational branching Prefer minimalization and not too many items
displayed at once
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Categories of organization◦Type: alphabetical, type◦Chronological
Results◦Preference: timeline > frequency > alphabetical◦Scroll function to zoom in/out of timeline◦Prefer minimalist view◦Targets of search: when or what
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Include scroll time function Minimalist appearance: show linear timeline first,
expand upon search Search function Proposed features (not tested yet)◦Color coding for “important” websites◦Branching of websites to show relational links
Definition of “Importance” How to organize thumbnail◦Thumbnail groupings
Color coding functions◦ Inactive websites◦Website “bookmarking”
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