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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Revisiting read wear
T2 - analysis, design, and evaluation of a footprints scrollbar
AU - Alexander, Jason
AU - Cockburn, Andy
AU - Fitchett, Stephen
AU - Gutwin, Carl
AU - Greenberg, Saul
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - In this paper, we show that people frequently return to previously-visited regions within their documents, and that scrollbars can be enhanced to ease this task. We analysed 120 days of activity logs from Microsoft Word and Adobe Reader. Our analysis shows that region revisitation is a common activity that can be supported with relatively short recency lists. This establishes an empirical foundation for the design of an enhanced scrollbar containing scrollbar marks that helps people return to previously visited document regions. Two controlled experiments show that scrollbar marks decrease revisitation time, and that a large number of marks can be used effectively. We then design an enhanced Footprints scrollbar that supports revisitation with several features, including scrollbar marks and mark thumbnails. Two further experiments show that the Footprints scrollbar was frequently used and stronglypreferred over traditional scrollbars.
AB - In this paper, we show that people frequently return to previously-visited regions within their documents, and that scrollbars can be enhanced to ease this task. We analysed 120 days of activity logs from Microsoft Word and Adobe Reader. Our analysis shows that region revisitation is a common activity that can be supported with relatively short recency lists. This establishes an empirical foundation for the design of an enhanced scrollbar containing scrollbar marks that helps people return to previously visited document regions. Two controlled experiments show that scrollbar marks decrease revisitation time, and that a large number of marks can be used effectively. We then design an enhanced Footprints scrollbar that supports revisitation with several features, including scrollbar marks and mark thumbnails. Two further experiments show that the Footprints scrollbar was frequently used and stronglypreferred over traditional scrollbars.
KW - Document revisitation
KW - read wear
KW - Scrolling
U2 - 10.1145/1518701.1518957
DO - 10.1145/1518701.1518957
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 978-1-60558-246-7
T3 - CHI '09
SP - 1665
EP - 1674
BT - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09)
PB - ACM
CY - New York, NY, USA
ER -