GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-95-25
Title:
The Krakatoa Chronicle - An Interactive, Personalized, Newspaper on the Web
Authors:
Tomonari Kamba
Krishna Bharat
Michael C. Albers
Abstract:
This paper describes The Krakatoa Chronicle, a highly interactive,
personalized newspaper on the World Wide Web (WWW). It is intended for
Java-aware WWW browsers such as HotJava, and is architecturally quite
different from conventional web-based newspapers. Its high interactivity
and powerful personalization are the result of sending an interactive
agent along with the text of the newspaper to function within the user's
web-browser. The agent uses the network connection to the WWW server site
to fetch resources dynamically and for updating the user's personal
profile through relevance feedback. Users are provided browsing options
such as scrolling, maximizing, resizing and peeking at articles. These
operations not only enhance the reading experience but also transparently
provide information to our agent about the user's locus of interest. Ours
is the first web newspaper to attempt a realistic rendering of a
newspaper, with a multi-column format and embedded, custom, widgets for
easy browsing. We provide dynamic layout control mechanisms that let the
user specify how personal and community interests should be interpreted
by the agent in designing the layout.
Keywords:
Online newspaper, personalization, information retrieval, interactive
agent, active documents, automatic layout
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