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Chapter 3
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1628-8.ch003
INTRODUCTION
Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast
has projected that there will be nearly 3 billion
internet users by 2015, that is to say that there
will be more than 40% of the world’s population
who have access to the benefits and drawbacks
of the World Wide Web (Cisco, 2011). With so
many people online, internet traffic and data flows
are becoming as congested and overloaded as
our roads. Computer users report that they find
it difficult and sometimes impossible to manage
their online lives in an efficient manner, and they
experience increasing frustration when finding and
re-finding important information. The design and
utility of web browsers are therefore becoming
Siu-Tsen Shen
National Formosa University, Taiwan
Stephen D. Prior
Middlesex University, UK
A Fresh Look at Graphical
Web Browser Revisitation
using an Organic Bookmark
Management System
ABSTRACT
With roughly a third of the world’s population now having access to the internet, the area of web ef-
fciency and its optimal use is of growing importance to all online users. We are approaching a tipping
point where the majority of people will have spent more time online than offine. With this in mind, the
function of revisitation, where a user wants to return to a website that they have visited in the recent
past, becomes more important. Current static, textual-list approaches developed within the latest ver-
sions of mainstream web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome leave much to be
desired. This chapter suggests a new approach via the use of organic, visual, and contextual cues to
support users in this vital task area.