ActiWare : Activity-aware Scrollbar for Display of Dynamic Interactions in Social Platforms

We introduce activity-aware scrolling (ActiWare Scrolling), an approach that displays live activity on dynamic pages as they happen. ActiWare Scrolling makes use of the intrinsic display feature of the native scrollbar to indicate user interactions outside the current view. We present two versions of this scrollbar: clickable and screening. The screening version displays an indication for the user to scroll to; the clickable version allows the user to click on it for immediate teleportation. Our results show that users are able to save 95% of scrolling mileage and 50.9% in time finding recent activity using the clickable scrollbar - over the native scrollbar. The screening scrollbar also outperformed the native scrollbar with a 54.4% saving in scrolling mileage and a 40.5% saving on time.

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Osama Askoura

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-5

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[0001]Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

York University, Toronto, Canada

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.83

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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Scrollbar of Contents [Computer Software]. (Version: .2.2, 2016) Retrieved from http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scrollbar-of-contents/cfmkncejaemmcobmaabfigljmnkeecdm?hl=en

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[1] S. McCrickardR. Catrambone Beyond the scrollbar: an evolution and evaluation of alternative navigation techniques Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages – 1999 New York IEEE 1999 270 277

[2] S. ZhaiA. Smith Multistream input: An experimental study of document scrolling methods IBM Systems Journal 38 1999 642 651

[3] D. Byrd A scrollbar-based visualization for document navigation Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Digital libraries – DL 1999 New York ACM 1999 122 129

[4] J. MatejkaT. GrossmanG. Fitzmaurice Swifter: improved online video scrubbing Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI 2013 New York ACM 2013 1159 1168

[5] W. HillJ. HollanD. WroblewskiT. McCandless Edit wear and read wear Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI 1992 New York ACM 1992 3 9

[6] W. IshakK. Feiner Content-aware scrolling Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology – UIST 2006 New York ACM 2006 155 158

[7] S. ZhaiB. SmithT. Selker Improving browsing performance: A study of four input devices for scrolling and pointing tasks Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT ’97 Springer 1997

[8] K. HinckleyE. CutrellS. BathicheT. Muss Quantitative analysis of scrolling techniques Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI 2002 New York ACM 2002 65 72

[9] Scrollbar of Contents [Computer Software]. (Version: .2.2, 2016) Retrieved from http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scrollbar-of-contents/cfmkncejaemmcobmaabfigljmnkeecdm?hl=en

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