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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By  FanTABulous

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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