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IRCHIVER: An Information-Centric Personal Web Archive for Revisiting Past Online Sensemaking Tasks

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The dynamic nature of web content poses unique challenges to revisiting past online sensemaking tasks.We investigate the value and usage patterns of a personal web archive that treats consumed information as first-class object in both information re-finding and mental model reconstruction.In this work, we introduce a new system called irchiver that passively captures screenshots of active browser windows, extracts text from screenshots and page sources, CCS Concepts• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); • Information systems → World Wide Web.

Source: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR)

DOI: 10.1145/3698204.3716459

Authors: Zhicheng Huang, Jeff Huang

Institution: Brown University

Language: English

Topic: Personal Information Management and User Behavior

Subfield: Information Systems and Management

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4409973425

FWCI: 6.263

Cites: 86

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10