Computers are used for various purposes and frequent context switch is inevitable. In this
setting, retrieving the documents, files, and web pages that have been used for a task can be …

Modern knowledge workers typically need to use multiple resources, such as documents,
web pages, and applications, at the same time. This complexity in their computing …

Modern users typically open multiple software, websites, and documents for daily tasks.
Retrieving previously used digital resources, such as web pages, documents, local files, and …

Knowledge work is frequently interrupted. Interruptions enable collaboration and bring
timely information, but they disrupt the fragile context of ongoing activities. Computers, now …

Academic search tasks that are complex may require that a searcher undertake the task over
the course of multiple search sessions, and possibly using multiple devices. One of the key …

This study compares the use of a laptop versus a touch-screen PC to perform web-based
information search tasks. Thirty-six participants took part in a lab-based experiment. They …

The Passages system enhances information management by maintaining a detailed
chronicle of all the text the user ever reads or edits, and making this chronicle available for …

When screen reader users need to back track pages to re-find previously visited content,
they are forced to listen to some portion of each unwanted page to recognize it. This makes …

We report on the development of TMVis, a web service to provide visualizations of how
individual webpages have changed over time. We leverage past research on summarizing …

Millions of web pages are visited, and revisited every day. On average, every second page
loaded was already visited before by the same user—individual means for recurrence rates …