Paper Info
Title
A longitudinal study of how highlighting web content change affects people's web interactions
Abstract
The Web is constantly changing, but most tools used to access Web content deal only with what can be captured at a single instance in time. As a result, Web users may not have a good understanding of the changes that occur. In this paper we show that making Web content change explicitly visible allows people to interact with the Web in new ways. We present a longitudinal study in which 30 people used a Web browser plug-in that caches visited pages and highlights text changes to those pages when revisited. We used a survey to capture their understanding of Web page change and their own revisitation patterns at the beginning of use and after one month. For a majority of the participants, we also logged their Web page visits and associated content change. Exposing change is more valuable to our participants than initially expected, making them aware of how dynamic content they visit is and changing their interactions with it.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1753326.1753530
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
web page change,web interaction,web content deal,web content change,longitudinal study,exposing change,good understanding,text change,content change,dynamic content,web page visit,web pages
Web development,Internet privacy,Web page,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Web 2.0,Social Semantic Web,Web Accessibility Initiative,Web design,World Wide Web,Web analytics,Web navigation,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.61
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaime Teevan14041209.15
Susan Dumais2139482130.47
Daniel J. Liebling370634.07