1. Individual APT Presentation January 2006
FollowMyLink
Individual APT Presentation
January 2006 1

2. Introduction There are no pre-requisites
Useful for students who followed CSA3200 in their 3rd year!
May be useful for students who intend to follow CSA3200 (Adaptive Hypertext Systems) in 4th year 2

3. Aims
Freeing users from “the tyranny of the link”… 3

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5. Aims 5

6. How?
Instead of merely sending the selected keyword(s) to a search engine, FollowMyLink selects additional terms that are likely to be relevant to the selected term… 6

7. Why?
Instead of taking the user to a search engine’s results page, we take the user to the top ranked page the search engine returns
We will also provide a way for users to look at the results to select another page 7

8. How? Maintain two models
Session User Model
Page Model
Page Model will look for potentially interesting/ relevant terms around the selected term and on the same page
Session UM will record terms that occur frequently throughout the session 8

9. Tools
I recommend…
Mozilla Firefox
Xul (XML User Interface Language) and JavaScript
A tutorial on Xul will be provided
Google API
Your plug-in will be portable!
But you’re free to use any other browser, platform, language 9