TopicShop: Enhanced Support for Evaluating and Organizing Collections of Web Sites (2000)
| Venue: | IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH ANNUAL ACM SYMPOSIUM ON USER INTERFACE SOFTWARE AND TECHNOLOGY |
| Citations: | 14 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Amento00topicshop:enhanced,
author = {Brian Amento and Loren Terveen and Will Hill and Deborah Hix},
title = {TopicShop: Enhanced Support for Evaluating and Organizing Collections of Web Sites},
booktitle = {IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH ANNUAL ACM SYMPOSIUM ON USER INTERFACE SOFTWARE AND TECHNOLOGY},
year = {2000},
pages = {201--209},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
TopicShop is an interface that helps users evaluate and organize collections of web sites. The main interface components are site profiles, which contain information that helps users select high-quality items, and a work area, which offers thumbnail images, annotation, and lightweight grouping techniques to help users organize selected sites. The two components are linked to allow task integration. Previous work [2] demonstrated that subjects who used TopicShop were able to select significantly more highquality sites, in less time and with less effort. We report here on studies that confirm and extend these results. We also show that TopicShop subjects spent just half the time organizing sites, yet still created more groups and more annotations, and agreed more in how they grouped sites. Finally, TopicShop subjects tightly integrated the tasks of evaluating and organizing sites.
