Visualization of Web exploration streams and user's genuine intentions

A Web exploration by using search engines is increasingly becoming the mainstream in recent years. Users prepare many various search queries and select web pages obtained by the queries. Then, it is much beneficial for users to look back own web exploration streams. For example, this looking back may help users to understand own exploration or to become aware of novel potential knowledge. In this research, authors propose a web exploration support system which visualizes a user's web exploration streams. Moreover, the support system that presents the relationships between plural exploration streams to users. In this paper, authors describe basic research concepts and an overview of the support system.