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Log Analysis of Map-Based Web Page Search on Digital City Kyoto

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Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches (Digital Cities 2001)

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This paper analyzes how people use map-based user interfaces of regional information systems on the Internet. The analysis is based on the log data of InfoMap, which is supplied on the Web site of the Digital City Kyoto prototype. InfoMap provides a map-based user interface that has useful functions enabling users to choose links to Web pages using digital maps. The log data of InfoMap was recorded automatically on the Web server and enabled us to analyze access frequencies, function usages, and content selections. In this paper, the characteristics of the map-based user interface compared with the characteristics of traditional text-based search engines are explained.

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  1. NTT Communication Science Laboratories, 2-4, Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0237, Japan

    Kaoru Hiramatsu

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  1. Ube National College of Technology, Tokiwadai, Ube City, Yamaguchi Pref., 755-8555, Japan

    Makoto Tanabe

  2. Department of Social Sciences Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Joan Muyskenweg 25, PO Box 95110, 1090 HC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  3. Social Informatics Program, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  4. Department of Social Informatics Laboratory for Global Information Network, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Toru Ishida

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Hiramatsu, K. (2002). Log Analysis of Map-Based Web Page Search on Digital City Kyoto. In: Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., Ishida, T. (eds) Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches. Digital Cities 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45636-8_18

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