The goal of this work is to gain a greater understanding of user behaviour during web information tasks in order to better support users on the Web. We have completed a field study examining information seeking behaviour on the Web and propose two ...

People commonly interact with lists of information -- incoming emails are listed in a person's Inbox, search engines return lists of results, news stories appear as lists on newspaper Web sites, and people navigate file systems by listing directory ...

In this paper we present our design of a novel system, named nReader, to help people read online news. According to researches on news recommendation and a newly deployed survey on user's feeling and requirement about current news reading style, we ...

This study explored how the perception of task difficulty affects information searching interaction. We analyzed how the relationship between perceived task difficulty and information searching interaction varies by different types of tasks. These types ...

A study was conducted, with 180 participants, to evaluate whether individual differences in basic cognitive abilities (i.e., spatial and verbal ability), attitudes towards computers, and prior experience with computers influence peoples' ability to ...

The World Wide Web and other technological advances have meant rapid reading or "skimming" of text is increasingly common in our information-rich time-limited society. This study investigates the effectiveness of skimming as a strategy for understanding ...

Digital libraries have great potential to improve the educational experience. As a result, there are a wide variety of such repositories, especially those that focus specifically on education. But relatively few focus on topics as specific as Human-...

Electronic expert-finder systems routinely store expert information in profile format. A user can view these profiles to choose the expert he/she wants to work with. In this paper we examine how profile attributes affect a user's choice of an expert. We ...

This paper presents MouseTrack as a web logging system that tracks mouse movements on websites. The system includes a visualization tool that displays the mouse cursor path followed by website visitors. It helps web site administrators run usability ...