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"I tend to have a lot of things going on at once with my tabs - right now, for example, I have three different webmail sessions; an article that my mom sent me last week that I haven't read yet; a page on an interactive fiction game I've been meaning to download and play; information on an NSF grant program that I decided not to apply for but want to keep in mind; a couple of pages about an online game I'm currently obsessed with; two tabs on White Nose Syndrome for a school project; and I could go on. In my mind these belong in groups - Leisure; Things I Need to Read or Store; Mail; School Projects. I sometimes group tabs into separate windows, but there's no easy way to restore that group of tabs if I close the window, so I tend to just leave everything open. I could bookmark the tabs, but then they get lost in my enormous Bookmarks menu, which is agonizing to scroll through. I've also tried using Session Managers to hang onto tab groups, but all the ones I've tried cause performance issues and they often crash the browser altogether." [[User:margaretmoser|margaretmoser]] | "I tend to have a lot of things going on at once with my tabs - right now, for example, I have three different webmail sessions; an article that my mom sent me last week that I haven't read yet; a page on an interactive fiction game I've been meaning to download and play; information on an NSF grant program that I decided not to apply for but want to keep in mind; a couple of pages about an online game I'm currently obsessed with; two tabs on White Nose Syndrome for a school project; and I could go on. In my mind these belong in groups - Leisure; Things I Need to Read or Store; Mail; School Projects. I sometimes group tabs into separate windows, but there's no easy way to restore that group of tabs if I close the window, so I tend to just leave everything open. I could bookmark the tabs, but then they get lost in my enormous Bookmarks menu, which is agonizing to scroll through. I've also tried using Session Managers to hang onto tab groups, but all the ones I've tried cause performance issues and they often crash the browser altogether." [[User:margaretmoser|margaretmoser]] | ||
==Survey Questions== | == Survey Questions == | ||
''Based on the user stories and other initial research, what kinds of questions about browsing history could we formulate to find more perspective on the problems we've established? Fill in any number of questions below. They can be short answer, multiple choice, [http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Likert_scale Likert scale] (1 to 5 or 1 to 7, strongly disagree to strongly agree), true/false, or anything else you find appropriate.'' | |||
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Questions Team 2 (Aaron, Andrea, Yoon) (Will be revised) | Questions Team 2 (Aaron, Andrea, Yoon) (Will be revised) | ||
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1. What do you think is the most important/helpful clue to find out/remember a website that you visited? (Rank)<br> - Image (Look:Font/Layout/Color/Logo)<br> - Keywords (Tags)<br> - Sound/music<br> - Title of the page or website<br> - Address (URL/Domain)<br> - Type/Characteristic of page (Category)<br> | |||
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2. Do you use: - Windows - Tabs - Both | |||
4. When is the last time you shut down your browser? | 3. How many tabs/windows do you have open right now? | ||
4. When is the last time you shut down your browser? | |||
5. What browsers do you use? | 5. What browsers do you use? | ||
Why do you use that browser (strengths/weaknesses)? | - Google Chrome<br>- Firefox <br>- Safari <br>- IE<br> - Opera<br> - Camino | ||
Why do you use that browser (strengths/weaknesses)? | |||
6. What bookmarking tools do you use? | |||
- digg<br> - reddit<br> - delicious <br>- built-in browser bookmark | |||
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- reddit | |||
- delicious | |||
- built-in browser bookmark | |||
Why do you use that bookmarking tool (strengths/weaknesses)? | Why do you use that bookmarking tool (strengths/weaknesses)? | ||
7. When you try to find a page you were looking at, do you: | 7. When you try to find a page you were looking at, do you:<br> - try to recreate the path from main site (ex: searching for sports article in nytimes, you start at nytimes homepage) <br>- look from a search engine, using keywords | ||
- try to recreate the path from main site (ex: searching for sports article in nytimes, you start at nytimes homepage) | |||
- look from a search engine, using keywords | |||
8. Would you like an option to save the current state of opened pages? (including all opened windows and tabs) | 8. Would you like an option to save the current state of opened pages? (including all opened windows and tabs) | ||
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==Ideas== | ==Ideas== |
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