Improving the quality of Visual Web Browsing by using weighted graph drawing
Mao Lin Huang, Bolei Zhou · UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney) · 2001
Visual Web Browser! 1J provides an online graphical views for users to explore the webspace dynamically without requiring the whole web graph to be known.It allows the user to graphically snoop the World Wide Web via a sequence of successive visual maps of web structure, where the visual node corresponds to a web page and the arc corresponds to a liyperiink interconnected with web pages.However, the preliminary version of Visual Web Browser can only display visual nodes with the same size, regardless of the importance of nodes in the web locality.The user has no knowledge of what nodes are landmark nodes and more important to them, and what nodes are less important to them while surfing through the web.This paper discusses a new method of applying Weighted Graph Drawing in our Visual Web Browser.Under the weighted graph model, we use differellt si:e of nodes to indicate the importance of the node in the web locality.Thus, the user can gain the knowledge of importance of nodes while he/she is browsing through the web-space.This gives the user some ideas of where he/she is in the web locality and helps the user to make up the decision of where to go next during the navigation.