Capture & Analysis of Active Reading Behaviors for Interactive Articles on the Web

dc.contributor.authorConlen, Matthewen_US
dc.contributor.authorKale, Alexen_US
dc.contributor.authorHeer, Jeffreyen_US
dc.contributor.editorGleicher, Michael and Viola, Ivan and Leitte, Heikeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-02T18:28:57Z
dc.date.available2019-06-02T18:28:57Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractJournalists, educators, and technical writers are increasingly publishing interactive content on the web. However, popular analytics tools provide only coarse information about how readers interact with individual pages, and laboratory studies often fail to capture the variability of a real-world audience. We contribute extensions to the Idyll markup language to automate the detailed instrumentation of interactive articles and corresponding visual analysis tools for inspecting reader behavior at both micro- and macro-levels. We present three case studies of interactive articles that were instrumented, posted online, and promoted via social media to reach broad audiences, and share data from over 50,000 reader sessions. We demonstrate the use of our tools to characterize article-specific interaction patterns, compare behavior across desktop and mobile devices, and reveal reading patterns common across articles. Our contributed findings, tools, and corpus of behavioral data can help advance and inform more comprehensive studies of narrative visualization.en_US
dc.description.number3
dc.description.sectionheadersInteraction Techniques
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume38
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13720
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages687-698
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13720
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13720
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.titleCapture & Analysis of Active Reading Behaviors for Interactive Articles on the Weben_US
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