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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Information Foraging Theory"”.
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Investigating the Applicability of Information Foraging Theory to Mobile Web Browsing
Major research studies have provided support for information scent based usability evaluation and have increased its parent theory's (Information Foraging theory) credibility in the HCI community. These studies have, directly and indirectly, found significant correlations between good information …
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Exploring Usage of Web Resources Through a Model of API Learning
… an acronym for “Collection and Organization of Information for Learning,” was recently developed to model the entire API learning process, drawing from information foraging theory, cognitive load theory, and external memory research. We ran an exploratory empirical user study in which …
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ClickTrails: Enhancing Web Navigation with Usage-Based Stylization of Clicked Web Page Elements
… web pages. Drawing inspiration from concepts in information foraging theory, this thesis investigates methods to capture and visualize the typically unseen traversals made by users in the online domain as a method of improving the information scent of web pages. We introduce ClickTrails, a …
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Consumption of Content on the Web: An Ecologically Inspired Perspective
How do people search for and organize informational resources on the web? This dissertation explores this question in the context of music tagging and listening, incorporating web data mining and machine learning methods with theory from cognitive science. In particular, I draw inspiration from …
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A framework for understanding user interaction with content-based image retrieval: model, interface and users
… on different user types. Accordingly, based on Information Foraging Theory, we further propose a user classification model along three user interaction dimensions: information goals (I), search strategies (S) and evaluation thresholds (E) of users. To our best knowledge, this is the first …
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Application of Human-computer Interaction Theories to Information Design on Internet Portals
… are increasingly becoming a primary source of information. A portal is a gateway to information on the Internet or a hub from which users may locate relevant information (Strauss, 2000). Because university Web sites have various user classes, universities are beginning to adopt the portal …