Title
The Role of Pre-Existing Highlights in Reader-Text Interactions and Outcomes.
Abstract
Many digital information environments enable sharing of readers' highlights and other annotations, despite the lack of clear evidence of the effects on interaction behaviours and outcomes. We report on an experimental user study (n=15) of the impact of pre-existing highlights of varying quality on the digital reading process and outcomes of participants with different cognitive styles. We found that highlight quality affects surface level comprehension, but not deeper understanding. Participants were able to assess highlight quality and expressed different approaches to highlighting that influenced their interpretation of pre-existing highlights. Results regarding the impact of cognitive style were inconclusive.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3197026.3197066
JCDL
Keywords
Field
DocType
annotation,comprehension,highlighting,reading,social reading
Digital reading,Annotation,Computer science,Cognitive psychology,Pre-existing,Multimedia,Comprehension,Cognitive style
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2575-7865
978-1-4503-5178-2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samuel Dodson163.51
Luanne Freund243230.90
Rick Kopak31127.11