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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Information Scent"”.
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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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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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Improving Collection Understanding for Web Archives with Storytelling: Shining Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives
… We generate story metadata to improve the information scent of a story so users can understand it better. After an analysis showing that existing platforms perform poorly for web archives and a user study establishing the best surrogate type, we generate document metadata for the exemplars …
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Human-AI Mechanisms for Scholarly Knowledge Synthesis
… to stay current with relevant literature. This information overload risks duplicated research efforts, limits innovation, and hinders scholarly growth as researchers struggle to identify gaps and contextualize their work within the existing body of knowledge. While recent advances in AI offer …
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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 …