Navigation Features

What are we discussing

We are not talking about layout and navigation bars here….we are talking beyond that.Telling a user where they are at in a

web siteStructure of web siteSearch and Results

Where Am I?Map views of Websites

Introduction

Fields of ResearchCollaboration with Industry

Research in Vision

Rosenfeld, Azriel

Center for Automation Research

Rosenfeld, Azriel

Rivlin, et al., (Feb. 1994). Navigating in Hyperspace: Designing a structure-based toolbox. CACM, 37(2), 2:87–96. <URL:http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/175235.17524>.

Types of Website Maps

Breadcrumb listsSitemap listsSitemap picturesMulti-dimensional pictures

Colour, size, and positionDynamic Diagrams, Inc.

Breadcrumb Detail

BreadcrumbExample at IBM

Some Sample Sitemaps

Sitemap List

Sitemap Example at IBM Zurich

http://www.mundi.net/maps/maps_006/

Indexing Create index – useful when larger set of items to display Often alphabetical

Paging and PaginationIdea – present

multiple items a page at a time.

Need – how do you paginate – controls.

Often results of a search operation.

Slide (show) through itemsNot traditional “page numbering.Works like a slide show…typically with

imagesWorks best on limited number of items

Slide Show Here is some results from Yahoo on images themselves!

Here results on new items of the day

Search ResultsLists or Images

with some pagination/slide show navigation

List by relevance or sponsorship or publication date or????

Search ResultsHere have sponsored, relevance

ordering with pagination.

Search ResultsHere more imagery used because

of type of search (for a person)

Search Results