Visualising Web Visitations: A Probabilistic Approach

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Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'04)

London, England

July 14-July 16

ISBN: 0-7695-2177-0

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	Geoff Ellis, Alan Dix, "Visualising Web Visitations: A Probabilistic Approach," Information Visualisation, International Conference on, pp. 599-604, Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'04), 2004.

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	@article{ 10.1109/IV.2004.1320204, author = {Geoff Ellis and Alan Dix}, title = {Visualising Web Visitations: A Probabilistic Approach}, journal ={Information Visualisation, International Conference on}, volume = {0}, year = {2004}, issn = {1093-9547}, pages = {599-604}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IV.2004.1320204}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - Information Visualisation, International Conference on TI - Visualising Web Visitations: A Probabilistic Approach SN - 1093-9547 SP599 EP604 A1 - Geoff Ellis, A1 - Alan Dix, PY - 2004 KW - null VL - 0 JA - Information Visualisation, International Conference on ER -

Geoff Ellis, Huddersfield University

Alan Dix, Lancaster University

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IV.2004.1320204

This paper presents a technique, the Quantum Web Field, designed to give an ambient visualisation of the current activity on a web site. It uses the paths of past visitors to the site and a self-organising map to build a diffuse 'probabilistic' mapping of pages to cells in a 2D matrix, where highly traversed page-links tend to be closer to each other. The paths of current visitors appear as intelligible trails giving a sense of purposeful human activity rather than offering detailed analysis. The visualisation is not constrained by either the complexity or the number of pages in the site.

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Geoff Ellis, Alan Dix, "Visualising Web Visitations: A Probabilistic Approach," iv, pp.599-604, Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'04), 2004

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