Title
Activity fragmentation in the web: empowering users to support their own webflows
Abstract
The Web is becoming a main conduit for our daily activities. When an activity expands across different websites, the user is left alone in the effort to aggregate the resources and services required in carrying out these cross-site activities. This results in a lost of focus, and constant switching among websites. The problem is that these webflows tend to be highly personal and hence, difficult to foreseen. Therefore, we advocate for users to be empowered to define these roadmaps upon the websphere. This work introduces CORSET, a Firefox plugin that lets users create their own webflows in the browser side. A corset is defined as a state-transition diagram, and results in "layer hyperlinks" being superimposed upon the participating websites. The expressiveness of CORSET is validated against four webflow patterns: the hub-and-spoke pattern, the guided-tour pattern, the parallel pattern and the interruption pattern. The benefits include (1) mitigation of activity fragmentation, (2) consolidation of webflow knowledge that is now amenable to sharing, (3) reduction in the number of clicks, and (4), alleviation of waiting times through page pre-load.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2481492.2481500
HT
Keywords
Field
DocType
interruption pattern,own webflows,webflow knowledge,daily activity,webflow pattern,guided-tour pattern,cross-site activity,parallel pattern,activity fragmentation,hub-and-spoke pattern,web,accessibility
Information foraging theory,World Wide Web,Information scent,Computer science,Fragmentation (computing),Hyperlink,Plug-in,Low vision,Multimedia,Expressivity
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
20
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oscar Díaz141562.28
Josune De Sosa2163.08
Salvador Trujillo348929.31