Tabs.do: Task-Centric Browser Tab Management

Joseph Chee Chang·Yongsung Kim·Victor Miller
UIST·2021·17 citations

TLDRA Chrome extension called Tabs.do is introduced, which explores bringing a task-centric approach to the browser, helping users to group their tabs into tasks and then organize, prioritize, and switch between those tasks fluidly.

Tabs.do: Task-Centric Browser Tab Management

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Tabs.do has informed subsequent research in several ways: its characterization of tab overload and the mismatch between browser interfaces and users' task mental models has been used to motivate new approaches to managing browsing complexity and web-based sensemaking tools; its ML-based tab grouping method has served as a comparative baseline for privacy-preserving task inference techniques; its task-centric design strategies—such as lightweight interactions for organizing information and context-aware suggestions—have influenced the design of systems for collecting and triaging web content, scrap management tools, and multi-page web exploration interfaces; and its field deployment methodology and observations about evolving browsing patterns have been referenced in work studying large-scale web usage behavior.

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Tabs.do: Task-Centric Browser Tab Management

Joseph Chee Chang·Yongsung Kim·Victor Miller
UIST·2021·17 citations

TLDRA Chrome extension called Tabs.do is introduced, which explores bringing a task-centric approach to the browser, helping users to group their tabs into tasks and then organize, prioritize, and switch between those tasks fluidly.

Tabs.do: Task-Centric Browser Tab Management

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Tabs.do has informed subsequent research in several ways: its characterization of tab overload and the mismatch between browser interfaces and users' task mental models has been used to motivate new approaches to managing browsing complexity and web-based sensemaking tools; its ML-based tab grouping method has served as a comparative baseline for privacy-preserving task inference techniques; its task-centric design strategies—such as lightweight interactions for organizing information and context-aware suggestions—have influenced the design of systems for collecting and triaging web content, scrap management tools, and multi-page web exploration interfaces; and its field deployment methodology and observations about evolving browsing patterns have been referenced in work studying large-scale web usage behavior.

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