CONTRASTING STACK-BASED AND RECENCY-BASED BACK BUTTONS ON WEB BROWSERS

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dc.contributor.authorGreenberg, Sauleng
dc.contributor.authorHo, Geoffreyeng
dc.contributor.authorKaasten, Shauneng
dc.date.accessioned2008-02-27T22:02:09Z
dc.date.available2008-02-27T22:02:09Z
dc.date.computerscience2000-09-14eng
dc.date.issued2000-09-14eng
dc.description.abstractPeople frequently use the ubiquitous Back button found in most Web browsers to return to recently visited pages. Because all commercial browsers implement Back as a stack, previously visited branches of the tree are pruned; this means that people can quickly navigate back up the tree. The problem is that previously seen pages on alternate child branches are no longer reachable through Back. An alternate method is to implement Back on a recency model, where all visited pages are placed on a recency-ordered list with duplicates removed. This means that all previously seen pages are now available via Back. Because advantages and trade-offs exist in both methods, we performed a study that contrasted how people used stack vs recency-based Back. We found that people have a naïve mental model of how the conventional stack-based Back works, typically perceiving it as a recency list. People are also poor predictors of what pages will be displayed with both types of Back buttons. Finally, people seem evenly split over their preference of a stack vs recency-based Back button.eng
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dc.identifier.department2000-666-18eng
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/30667
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/45858
dc.language.isoEngeng
dc.publisher.corporateUniversity of Calgaryeng
dc.publisher.facultyScienceeng
dc.subjectComputer Scienceeng
dc.titleCONTRASTING STACK-BASED AND RECENCY-BASED BACK BUTTONS ON WEB BROWSERSeng
dc.typeunknown
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceeng
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