My favorites (bookmarks) schema – one solution to
online information storage and retrieval
My favorites (bookmarks) schema – one solution to
online information storage and retrieval
Dealing with the overwhelming daily amount of online information is perhaps the biggest challenge faced by all computer users, whether they are novices or experienced professionals. How, where and when to store information sources, such as websites, is becoming increasingly difficult as people spend more of their life online and use the internet in all aspects of their lives. Our survey of 202 internet users found that although 85% of the participants regularly use the favorites (bookmarks) function, 73% still have trouble finding a website that they have recently visited. Whether the strategy is to bookmark in a single massive list and use the search tool, or to bookmark into folders and sub-folders several levels deep, appears to make very little difference. This research proposes a contrarian approach, giving users a highly structured favorites (bookmarks) schema using only two levels, consisting of four main headings and 12 sub-headings. An open card sorting task was used to validate the utility of such an approach. The results and their impact towards a future user-based knowledge structure are presented in this paper.
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Shen, Siu-Tsen
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Prior, Stephen D.
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11 July 2013
Shen, Siu-Tsen
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Prior, Stephen D.
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Shen, Siu-Tsen and Prior, Stephen D.
(2013)
My favorites (bookmarks) schema – one solution to
online information storage and retrieval.
ISDOC 2013 - International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisbon, Portugal.
11 - 12 Jul 2013.
8 pp
.
(doi:10.1145/2503859.2503865).
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Abstract
Dealing with the overwhelming daily amount of online information is perhaps the biggest challenge faced by all computer users, whether they are novices or experienced professionals. How, where and when to store information sources, such as websites, is becoming increasingly difficult as people spend more of their life online and use the internet in all aspects of their lives. Our survey of 202 internet users found that although 85% of the participants regularly use the favorites (bookmarks) function, 73% still have trouble finding a website that they have recently visited. Whether the strategy is to bookmark in a single massive list and use the search tool, or to bookmark into folders and sub-folders several levels deep, appears to make very little difference. This research proposes a contrarian approach, giving users a highly structured favorites (bookmarks) schema using only two levels, consisting of four main headings and 12 sub-headings. An open card sorting task was used to validate the utility of such an approach. The results and their impact towards a future user-based knowledge structure are presented in this paper.
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Published date: 11 July 2013
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ISDOC 2013 - International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013-07-11 - 2013-07-12
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Computational Engineering & Design Group
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Local EPrints ID: 353958
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/353958
ISBN: 978-1-4503-2299-7
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Siu-Tsen Shen
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