Evaluation Window.pdfVIP

WPI CURIOUS BROWSERS: Automated Gathering of Implicit Interest Indicators by an Instrumented Browser David Brown Mark Claypool Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA 01609, USA. WPI Research Overview Objective is to collect, measure, and evaluate the predictive power of Implicit Interest Indicators (i.e., of implicit ratings). Focused on prediction for single web page using a single indicator at a time. Developed web browser, The Curious Browser, that captured low level user actions. Used browser in 1st user study of about 80 people browsing 2,500 web pages. Used browser in 2nd user study of about 80 people browsing 1,000 web pages. WPI The Curious Browser Familiar GUI. Captures mouse and keyboard actions, and times, to a database, for each page and user. Used Visual Basic, with Internet Explorer version 5.0 html layout engine. WPI Browser Interface WPI Evaluation Window Prompts user for an Explicit Rating when leaving a web page. “No Comment” is default. WPI Activities Captured (1st expt) Mouse: Number of clicks. Time spent moving cursor. Scrollbar: Clicks on scroll bars. Time spent Scrolling. Keyboard: Page Up/Down. Up/Down Arrow. Time spent holding down key. R