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Publication Details Author(s): S. Ceri, F. Daniel, M. Matera and F. Rizzo Title: Extended Memory (xMem) of Web Interactions Reference: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'06), July 2006, ACM Press, Palo Alto, California, USA, Pages 177-184. Abstract: Finding a previously visited page during a Web navigation is a very common and important kind of interaction. Most commercial browsers incorporate history mechanisms, which typically are simple indexes of visited pages, sorted according to the time dimension. Such mechanisms are not very effective and are quite far from giving users the impression of a semantically aware, long-term memory, as it is available to the human brain. In particular they lack associative, semantic-based mechanisms that are essential for supporting information retrieval. This paper introduces xMem (eXtended Memory Navigation) as a new method to access users’ navigation history, based upon semantic and associative access. Its aim is to emulate some of the features of the human memory, so as to give users a better understanding of the context of their searches, by exploiting semantic cues characterizing contents of visited pages. Download paper