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Not Quite the Average:
An Empirical Study of Web Use†
HARALD WEINREICH AND HARTMUT OBENDORF
Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany
EELCO HERDER
L3S Research Center, University of Hannover, Germany
and
MATTHIAS MAYER
Department...
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Not Quite the Average:
An Empirical Study of Web Use†
HARALD WEINREICH AND HARTMUT OBENDORF
Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany
EELCO HERDER
L3S Research Center, University of Hannover, Germany
and
MATTHIAS MAYER
Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany
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In the past decade, the World Wide Web has been subject to dramatic changes.
Web sites have evolved from
static information resources to dynamic and interactive applications that are used for a broad scope of activities
on a daily basis.
To examine the consequences of these changes on user behavior, we conducted a long-term
client-side Web usage study with twenty-five participants.
This report presents results of this study and compares the user behavior with previous long-term browser usage studies, which range in age from seven to thirteen years.
Based on the empirical data and the interview results,
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