Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Pagelinker
Integrating contextual bookmarks into a browser
A.Tabard, W.Mackay, N.Roussel, C.Letondal
InSitu,
INRIA & LRI, Institut Pasteur
May 1, 2007
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
PageLinker videos
Looking for:
Paper format Proteins
Hotels
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Presentation Overview
Web page revisitation
Participatory Design with biologists
Contextual Bookmarks
Evaluation
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Revisitation and biologists
Heavy web users
Go from on website to another
to analyse data
Use a lot of online forms, and
copy/paste to transfer data
Bookmarks and history helpful
but not enough
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Purpose
Contextual bookmarks
are bookmarks/favorites specific to a page or set of pages.
Associate web pages together
Help users chain web pages
Improve web page revisitation
Contextualise web navigation
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Purpose
Contextual bookmarks
are bookmarks/favorites specific to a page or set of pages.
Associate web pages together
Help users chain web pages
Improve web page revisitation
Contextualise web navigation
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Web page revisitation tools
Literature
from 46% to 81% of
pages are revisited
[Weinreich & al 2006], [Cockburn & al 1999]
WebView, [Cockburn & al 1999]
Padprints, [Hightower & al 1998]
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Web page revisitation tools
Everyday browsers:
History
Bookmarks
URL drop down menu
Search Engines
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Preliminary Study of Biologists
20 biologists / bio-informaticians interviewed
Strong habits:
smooth integration in their workflow
Exploratory navigation:
interaction
Redundancy:
need to manage different versions of the same data
Data flows:
copy/paste to chain steps
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
PageLinker Participatory Design
Supporting biologists’ process of analysing web-based data by
associating related web pages.
4 iterations in a
participatory design process
links automatically created
through copy/paste events
co-adaptation
shown manual linking
Contextual Bookmarks
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Evaluation Field Expertiment
limited time-series, field experiment
within-subjects design, with one factor
4 iterations, once a week during one month
1. Firefox,
2. Firefox + PageLinker,
3. Firefox,
4. Firefox + PageLinker.
at users’ (12) workplace, on their own browser
15 minutes scenario, illustrating everyday web navigation
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Evaluation Scenario
15 minutes scenario,
illustrating everyday web navigation
1: Database search
(NCBI)
2,3: Parallel exploration
(Genemark, Genescan)
4: Comparison
(bl2seq)
5: Analysis and visual scan
(Blast)
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Results - time
task completion time was 28% shorter (p < 0.01)
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Results - clicks
22% fewer clicks occurred (p < 0.01)
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Results - page loads
38% fewer pages loaded (p < 0.01)
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Results
Some explanations
fewer intermediate pages visited
fewer searches
more accurate positioning
greater understanding
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Conclusion
Personal web of relevant pages
Contextual bookmarks improve revisitation
Keep users in control
3-month follow-up: 2/3 were still using it
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Authors
InSitu lab: http://insitu.lri.fr/
download: http://rabidfox.mozdev.org
A.Tabard: http://www.lri.fr/∼tabard
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
RDF datastructure
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Workshop
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Demo Web page Revisitation Participatory Design of PageLinker in situ Evaluation Questions
Navtracer: Firefox event logger
Improve the very limited browsers’ history
Need for detailed interaction log
Generated by the system through a Firefox extension
Know what you are interested in
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