Beyond paper: supporting active reading with free form digital ink annotations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The reader's helper: a personalized document reading environment
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A scrollbar-based visualization for document navigation
Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Reading patterns and usability in visualizations of electronic documents
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Faster document navigation with space-filling thumbnails
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
APVis '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information Visualisation - Volume 60
Eye tracking analysis of preferred reading regions on the screen
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mouse tracking: measuring and predicting users' experience of web-based content
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Reading on-screen text with gaze-based auto-scrolling
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Eye Tracking South Africa
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When a web browser is used to read documents which consist of multiple long pages, such as technical documentation, today's browsers only offer inadequate support for users to orient themselves within these pages. Even if a table of contents is present, no information about the size of individual sections is available. Furthermore, when jumping to different parts of a document, there is no way to find sections that have been visited earlier -- the browser's history functionality only works on the level of URLs, not within pages. In this paper, we introduce a tool that increases users' awareness of the organization of long HTML pages and visualizes their own navigation movements within these pages. Our JavaScript prototype uses a simple user interface concept which concentrates on automatic collection of information. It visualizes section sizes in a table of contents which is generated for all pages. Additionally, a heatmap highlights those parts of each page which have been viewed for extended amounts of time. In a user study, our concept is compared to the predominant existing in-page navigation aid, a fixed table of contents at the top of the page.