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Mandala Applications Mandala collects and stores collections of Web images so people can select any thumbnail in the imagemap to request the associated Web page. Mandala image collections have a variety of applications. |
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By providing an overview of the images at a site, a visual site map serves as a preview to help people decide if they should take the time to visit the site. Relevant images may be selected to access a page deep within the site's hypertext structure, minimizing unneeded clicks. A visual site map also provides more mnemonic clues than a textual map, which may better help people remember what they found at the site. |  visual site map |
| Visual bookmarks are created from the images on the Web pages in a list of “bookmarks” or “favorites.” With visual bookmarks it may be easier to find a bookmarked page and easier to remember why it was bookmarked. |  visual bookmarks |
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| Visual browsing-session summaries are created automatically from the images on each Web page visited in a browsing session. Visual session summaries may be useful as personal histories or for sharing. For example, teachers may browse the Web for materials relevant to a particular lesson and then email the link of the visual session summary to their students. |  visual browsing session summary |
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| Dynamic cache visualizations provide an interactive overview of how a community uses the Web. The overview continues to update as people request pages through the proxy server, allowing colleagues to watch each other surf and if anything looks interesting, to select it and start blazing a trail of their own. |  dynamic cache visualization |
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