July HCI Browser: A Tool for Studying Web Search Behavior Robert Capra rcapra3@unc.edu 0 1 2 School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , USA [4] Reeder , R. W., Pirolli, P., and Card, S. K. (2001). WebEyeMapper and WebLogger: Tools for Analyzing Eye Tracking Data Collected in Web-Use Studies. In CHI '01 Extended Abstracts [5] Turnbull, D. (1998). Webtacker: A Tool for Understanding Web Use. Unpublished report. Retreived on 2009 23 2009

We present a Mozilla Firefox extension called the HCI Browser that we are developing to support studies of how users find and refind information on the Web. The HCI Browser presents tasks to the user, collects browser event data as they search for information, records answers found, and administers pre- and post-task questionnaires.

 2. HCI BROWSER

The HCI Browser is implemented as a Firefox extension, meaning that it can easily be installed on any Firefox 3 browser. After installing the extension, every time the browser is loaded, three configuration files are read: a task file with the text of the tasks to

 3. REFERENCES

[1] Capra, R. (2008). Studying Elapsed Time and Task Factors in Re-Finding Electronic Information. Workshop on Personal Information Management at CHI 2008. [2] Claypool, M., Le, P., Wased, M., and Brown, D. 2001.

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