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Cross-Media Document Linking and Navigation

Cross-Media Document Linking and Navigation

Presentation given at DocEng 2018, 18th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Halifax, Canada.

ABSTRACT: Documents do often not exist in isolation but are implicitly or explicitly linked to parts of other documents. However, due
to a multitude of proprietary document formats with rather simple link models, today’s possibilities for creating hyperlinks between snippets of information in different document formats are limited. In previous work, we have presented a dynamically extensible cross-document link service overcoming the limitations of the simple link models supported by most existing document formats. Based on a plug-in mechanism,
our link service enables the linking across different document types. In this paper, we assess the extensibility of our link service by integrating some document formats as well as third-party document viewers. We illustrate the flexibility of creating advanced hyperlinks across these document formats and viewers that cannot be realised with existing linking solutions or link models of existing document formats. A user study further investigates the user experience when creating and navigating cross-document hyperlinks.

Research paper: https://beatsigner.com/publications/cross-media-document-linking-and-navigation.pdf

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August 30, 2018
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  1. 2 December 2005
    Cross-Media Document Linking and Navigation
    Ahmed A.O. Tayeh, Payam Ebrahimi and Beat Signer
    Web & Information Systems Engineering Lab
    Department of Computer Science
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    WEB & INFORMATION
    SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

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  2. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 2
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    Working With Documents
    ▪ 26% of reading and writing tasks include cross-document
    referencing
    ▪ Use of annotations and folders to create references
    ▪ 56% of knowledge workers not satisfied with existing mechanisms
    ▪ 75% of knowledge workers indicated the need for a tool
    to associate information

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  3. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 3
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    Missing Cross-Document Linking
    ×
    ×
    ×
    Word document PDF document

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  4. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 4
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    Existing Support for Hyperlinks

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  5. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 5
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    Existing Hypermedia Systems
    ▪ Limited extensibility
    ▪ on the data as well as
    on the visual level
    ▪ Limited support of
    third-party viewers
    MADCOW: A Multimedia Digital Annotation
    System, Paolo Bottoni et al., In Proceedings of
    AVI 2004

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  6. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 6
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    DocFormat 1 DocFormat 2
    C R U D
    Menu
    Gateways
    Link Model
    DocFormat 1
    Gateways Data Plug-ins Visual Plug-ins Add-ins
    DocFormat 2 DocFormat 3
    Database
    Add-in
    Gateway
    DocFormat 3
    Third-party
    document
    viewer
    DocFormat 3
    Data plug-ins
    Visual plug-in Visual plug-in
    Developer
    End user
    Link browser
    write and upload
    plug-ins and add-ins
    search and download
    plug-ins and add-ins
    visualise documents, create,
    navigate and edit hyperlinks
    Link service
    Communication
    Channels
    Plug-in tracking
    Gateway ...
    Gateway plug-ins
    RESTful API
    search and
    retrieve plug-ins
    Online Plug-in Repository

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  7. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 7
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    Visual Plug-ins

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  8. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 8
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    Extensibility Usability Evaluation
    1. Integration of a number of document formats
    ▪ link browser
    - PDF, XML, plain text and images
    ▪ third-party document viewers
    - Google Chrome, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
    2. How easy can other document formats be integrated?
    3. End-user usability study

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  9. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 9
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    Plain Text and PDF

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  10. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 10
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    HTML

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  11. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 11
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    YouTube

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  12. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 12
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    Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

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  13. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 13
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    Images

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  14. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 14
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    XML

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  15. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 15
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    How Easy Can Other Formats be Integrated?
    ▪ Visualisation in link browser
    ▪ available Java library
    ▪ definition of selectors
    ▪ visualisation of selectors
    ▪ Visualisation in third-party viewer
    ▪ extensible viewer
    ▪ definition of selectors
    ▪ visualisation of selectors
    ▪ support of communication channel

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  16. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 16
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    Visualisation in Link Browser

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  17. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 17
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    Visualisation in Third-Party Viewer

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  18. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 18
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    End-User Evaluation
    ▪ Mixed method approach
    ▪ 14 participants (7 males) aged between 23 and 37 (M=27)
    ▪ non-computer scientists (from VUB)
    ▪ Quantitative evaluation
    ▪ CSUQ questionnaire with 19 questions evaluating four different
    usability aspects
    - ease of use (SYSUSE)
    - information quality (INFOQUAL)
    - interface quality (INTERQUAL)
    - overall satisfaction (OVERALL)
    ▪ Qualitative evaluation via semi-structured interviews

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  19. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 19
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    Setup
    ▪ Only two document formats (plain text and Word)
    ▪ Brief explanation of study objectives
    ▪ Explanation of supported functionality
    ▪ Participants had to perform a number of tasks
    ▪ creating, navigating, deleting and editing of bi- and
    multidirectional hyperlinks
    ▪ extend the link service to support PDF and HTML
    ▪ creating and navigating multidirectional hyperlinks between the
    four document formats
    ▪ Questionnaire followed by a semi-structured interview

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  20. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 20
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    Quantitative Results

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  21. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 21
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    Aspects to be Improved
    ▪ Participants confused about hyperlink sources and targets
    ▪ Avoid technical concepts
    ▪ Avoid confusion in third-party viewer
    ▪ Provide explanations (manuals) via videos

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  22. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 22
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    Conclusions
    ▪ Contributions
    ▪ technical evaluation with a number of document formats
    - PDF, plain text, XML, images
    - Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, Google Chrome, YouTube
    ▪ technical evaluation of extensibility with other document formats
    ▪ initial end-user evaluation
    ▪ Future Work
    ▪ integration of additional document formats
    ▪ user study with third-party developers
    ▪ manageability and maintainability of hyperlinks

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  23. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh - Department of Computer Science - [email protected] 23
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    References
    ▪ A.A.O. Tayeh, P. Ebrahimi and B. Signer,
    Cross-Media Document Linking and Navigation,
    Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Document
    Engineering (DocEng 2018), Halifax, Canada,
    August 2018
    ▪ http://beatsigner.com/publications/tayeh_DocEng2018.pdf

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