Paper Info
Title
A Tool to Remotely Collect and Visualize Users' Interactions with Web-Based Content.
Abstract
In a remote, unmoderated experiment, we tested readers' performance and perceptions as they used web-based documents to perform information-seeking tasks. The high value of specific participant experiences motivated us to develop a low-overhead tool to collect specific information remotely about readers' experiences with web-based documents. The tool we developed overlays a web document and prompts readers with a specific request to which they respond by highlighting a location in the document. In our experiment, we found the interaction to be very clear and easy for readers of a web site to use. The tool required very low communication bandwidth and processing power to collect and analyze the data and produced easy to interpret response visualizations and statistical analyses. This paper describes our experience with the tool in the course of the experiment. Further, we propose broader applications of the tool to support research activities in other document genres and, to adapt it for professional use in content management systems and web publishing platforms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2987592.2987601
SIGDOC
Field
DocType
Citations 
World Wide Web,Web page,Computer science,Web analytics,Specific-information,Human–computer interaction,Web modeling,Application programming interface,Web application,Content management system,Multimedia,Web site
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert Watson121.41
Jan H. Spyridakis2324.83