Enriched Links: A Framework For Improving Web Navigation Using Pop-Up Views
Gary Geisler · 2000
We describe a conceptual framework for enriching Web links by displaying small, information-rich visualizations---pop-up views---that provide the user with information about linked pages that can be used to evaluate the appropriateness of the pages before making a commitment to select the link and wait for the page to load. Examples of how the enriched links framework could be applied in contexts, such as e-commerce catalog pages, search results for a video repository, and desktop icons, are also presented. KEYWORDS Visualization, navigation, overviews, previews, World Wide Web, enriched links INTRODUCTION The World Wide Web provides us with a vast number of resources, easily accessible with a click of the mouse. Knowing what we will get when we select a hyperlink, however, is often not so obvious, as the hyperlink itself provides no information about the type of quality of the resource it represents. As any regular user of the Web knows, navigating Web pages can often be a very fr...