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How Highlighting Change
Affects People’s Web Interactions
Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais & Dan Liebling
Microsoft Research
Web Dynamics
Content Changes
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• Studies of content change [Adar et al., Fetterly et al.]
• Web doubles and half the pages change yearly
• Frequency and degree of change characterized
Web Dynamics
• People revisit Web pages frequently
Content Changes
– Half of visits are revisits [Adar et al., Tauscher & Greenberg]
– A third of searches are for re-finding [Teevan et al.]
• Revisitation relates to change
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– 66% of revisits are to changed pages [Adar et al.]
– 20% of the content changes [Adar et al.]
– Often motivated by change [Adar et al., Keller et al.]
People –
Revisit
Change can cause problems [Obendorf et al., Teevan et al.]
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Web Dynamics
Content Changes
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People Revisit
Today’s Browse and Search Experiences
Ignores …
Systems That Expose Web Change
• Historical access to Web pages
– Internet Archives (archive.org)
• Subscription to Web content change
– RSS, Web slices
– Monitoring support [Kellar et al.]
• In-situ awareness of Web content change
– new symbols
– Dynamo, Difference Engine, WebCQ
DiffIE
New to you
Always on
Non-intrusive
In-situ
Changes to page
since your last visit
SURVEY
How often do
pages change?
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30 people
install DiffIE
SURVEY
How often do
pages change?
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Studying DiffIE
How often do
you revisit?
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How often do
you revisit?
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Content Changes
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People Revisit
People Revisit More
• Perception of revisitation remains constant
– How often do you revisit?
– How often are revisits to view new content?
• Actual revisitation increases
– First week: 39.4% of visits are revisits
– Last week: 45.0% of visits are revisits
• Why do people revisit more?
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Revisited Pages Change More
• Perception of change increases
– What proportion of pages change regularly?
– How often do you notice unexpected change?
• Amount of change seen increases
– First week: 21.5% revisits changed by 6.2%
– Last week: 32.4% revisits changed by 9.5%
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• Exposed change drives visits to changed pages
Perceptions of Change Reinforced
• Change by page type
• Pages that change a lot  change more
• Pages that change a little  change less
News pages
Message boards, forums, news groups
Search engine results
Change a lot
Blogs you read
Pages with product information
Wikipedia pages
Change little
Company homepages
Personal home pages of people you know
Reference pages (dictionaries, yellow pages, maps)
Affects of Highlighting Change
• People revisit Web pages more
• The pages revisited change more
• Perceptions of change are reinforced
Thank you.
Jaime Teevan
http://research.microsoft.com/~teevan
Change
Adar, Teevan, Dumais & Elsas. The Web changes everything: Understanding the dynamics of Web
Content. WSDM ’09 (Best Student Paper).
Elsas & Dumais. Leveraging temporal dynamics of document content in relevance ranking. WSDM
’10.
Revisitation
Adar, Teevan & Dumais. Large scale analysis of Web revisitation patterns. CHI ’08 (Best Paper).
Teevan, Adar, Jones & Potts. Information re-retrieval: Repeat queries in Yahoo’s logs. SIGIR ’07.
Tyler & Teevan. Large scale query log analysis of re-finding. WSDM ’10.
Relationship
Adar, Teevan & Dumais. Resonance on the Web: Web dynamics and revisitation patterns. CHI ’09.
DiffIE
Teevan, Dumais, Liebling & Hughes. Changing how people view changes on the Web. UIST ’09.
Teevan, Dumais & Liebling. A longitudinal study of how highlighting Web content change affects
people’s Web interactions. CHI ’10 (Best Paper).