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dc.contributor.authorMankowski, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-02T12:12:10Z
dc.date.available2011-05-02T12:12:10Z
dc.date.issued2011-05-02
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/13501
dc.descriptionDr. Keselj was the external to my supervision.en_US
dc.description.abstractOnline tasks that involve information gathering, those ranging from academic research to vacation planning, often present challenges to users such as information management, clutter and information overload. Studies have shown that users who return to online tasks after an absence have difficulty remembering why particular websites they had saved were useful. This work presents "Webscraps", an innovative web browser extension for Mozilla Firefox, designed to improve information gathering on the Web. Participants in a 30-person user study, significantly preferred Webscraps over webpage "thumbnails" for information gathering tasks that involved comparing information from different websites and remembering important text.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectInformation Gatheringen_US
dc.subjectWWWen_US
dc.subjectWebscrapsen_US
dc.subjectWeb tasksen_US
dc.subjectPrototypesen_US
dc.subjectUser Studyen_US
dc.title"Webscraps" -- A Tool to Manage Web Information Gathering Tasksen_US
dc.date.defence2011-04-13
dc.contributor.departmentFaculty of Computer Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Computer Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinerN/Aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorDr. Malcolm Heywooden_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDr. Vlado Keseljen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDr. Michael Shepherden_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorDr. Carolyn Wattersen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalReceiveden_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
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