Principles for Supporting and Enhancing User Navigation of Digital Video in Video Browsers

Video browsers provide an environment in which a user may navigate digital video content. They are therefore an important application for improving access to digital video resources. We apply a general framework for navigation, proposed by Spence (1999), and consider existing proposals for video browsers made within the research literature within the context of the framework. We then use this analysis to derive a number of principles that reflect the requirements for supporting and enhancing the user in the digital video navigation task.