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The paper investigates observational research on users navigating through multimedia and online resources. The audit trails of these users have been used to create a series of navigational patterns and graphs of tool usage. From this research, the need for a set of navigational tools or a toolbox of tools has been identified. This paper then discusses these tools and looks at researchers who have been developing or using tools. A new project called Arch uses these tools to enable exploration of an existing Arts and Humanities resource. Demonstrators for this project will be exhibited during the presentation. These tools could be generic and multipurpose and produced as a tool kit. The concept of this toolkit is that it would be available to users across a range of resources and prevent the need to re-learn new skills to use similar tools.
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Fenley, S. (2011). Navigation and Visualisation Tools Usage in Large Internet and Multimedia Resources. In: Wang, Y., Li, T. (eds) Practical Applications of Intelligent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 124. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25658-5_12
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