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Do highlights affect comprehension? Lessons from a user study Dodson, Samuel; Freund, Luanne; Kopak, Rick
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A largely unquestioned assumption in social reading is that publicly shared annotations improve reading outcomes. In this study, we explore the specific assumption that relevant and irrelevant passive highlighting affects comprehension. Participants were divided by cognitive style based on their degree of Field Dependence-Independence [19]. We found that irrelevant highlights had significant negative effects on reading comprehension for Field Independents (FIs), but not Field Dependents (FDs). This is a surprising result because FDs typically rely on external cues to structure and help process information, whereas FIs use internal cues. This suggests that highlighting cues information but does not structure it.
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Do highlights affect comprehension? Lessons from a user study
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2017
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A largely unquestioned assumption in social reading is that publicly
shared annotations improve reading outcomes. In this study, we explore the specific assumption that relevant and irrelevant passive highlighting affects comprehension. Participants were divided by cognitive style based on their degree of Field Dependence-Independence [19]. We found that irrelevant highlights had significant negative effects on reading comprehension for Field Independents (FIs), but not Field Dependents (FDs). This is a surprising result because FDs typically rely on external cues to structure and help process information, whereas FIs use internal cues. This suggests that highlighting cues information but does not structure it.
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eng
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2019-02-13
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0376432
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Dodson, S., Freund, L., & Kopak, R. (2017). Do highlights affect comprehension?: Lessons from a user study. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 381–384). New York, NY: ACM.
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10.1145/3020165.3022158
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Reviewed
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Faculty
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