Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2010
Publication Source
Information Processing and Management
Abstract
We present an analysis of a progressive series of out-of-turn transformations on a hierarchical website to personalize a user’s interaction with the site. We formalize the transformation in graph-theoretic terms and describe a toolkit we built that enumerates all of the traversals enabled by every possible complete series of these transformations in any site and computes a variety of metrics while simulating each traversal therein to qualify the relationship between a site’s structure and the cumulative effect of support for the transformation in a site. We employed this toolkit in two websites. The results indicate that the transformation enables users to experience a vast number of paths through a site not traversable through browsing and demonstrate that it supports traversals with multiple steps, where the semblance of a hierarchy is preserved, as well as shortcuts directly to the desired information.
Inclusive pages
284-294
ISBN/ISSN
0306-4573
Document Version
Postprint
Copyright
Copyright © 2010, Elsevier
Publisher
Pergamon Press
Place of Publication
Tarrytown, NY
Volume
46
Peer Reviewed
yes
Issue
3
Keywords
hierarchical hypermedia, information personalization, navigation, out-of-turn interaction, website transformation
eCommons Citation
Perugini, Saverio, "Personalization by website transformation: Theory and practice" (2010). Computer Science Faculty Publications. 19.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cps_fac_pub/19
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Comments
Accepted for publication in Information Processing and Management. Final published version of the paper is available from the publisher.