WebOFDAV - Navigating and Visualizing the Web On-Line with Animated Context Swapping

Abstract This paper presents a novel navigation approach that helps the user, not only by providing a visual aid to guide the Web journey, but also by preserving the user's mental map [2] of the view while the user interactively navigates the Web by swapping of views. This approach does not predefine the geometry of whole visualization at once; instead it incrementally calculates and maintains a small local visualization on-line corresponding to the change of the user's focus. This feature enables the user to explore the Webspace without requiring the whole Web graph to be known.