Does 'Letting Go of the Words' Increase Engagement

Colbert, Martin; Boodoo, Angela

doi:10.1145/1979742.1979663

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“…Several aspects of content have been investigated in conjunction with UE, including sentiment, interest, novelty (Arapakis et al, ; McCay‐Peet et al, ; O'Brien, ), quality (Colbert & Boodoo, ), and message framing (Hong, ). Recent research has investigated the effects of interactivity (Sundar et al, ) on UE, but studies examining media format are dated (Chapman et al, ; Jacques, Preece, & Carey, ).…”

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Antecedents and learning outcomes of online news engagement

O'Brien

2017

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User engagement (UE) is a quality of user experience characterized by the depth of an actor's cognitive, temporal, and/or emotional investment in an interaction with a digital system. Currently more art than science, UE has gained theoretical and methodological traction over the past decade, yet there is still a need to establish empirical links between UE and desired outcomes (e.g., learning, behavior change), and to understand the myriad user, system, contextual, and so on, factors that predict successful digital engagement. This paper focuses on the relationship between UE and media format as a potential antecedent, and the outcome of learning, operationalized as short-term knowledge retention. Participants interacted with two human-interest stories in one of four media formats: video, audio, narrative text, or transcript-style text; short-term knowledge retention was measured using post-task multiple choice and short-answer questions. It was anticipated that format would have a strong effect on UE, and that more engaged users would recall more information about the stories. However, these hypotheses were not fully supported, and the nature of the relationship between UE and learning was more nuanced than expected. This research has implications for the design of information systems and, more fundamentally, the impetus to make digital environments engaging.

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Antecedents and learning outcomes of online news engagement

O'Brien

2017

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“…Based on the above two challenges, the engagement definition by Colbert and Boodoo [17] and Sundar et al [46] is too broad. Macey and Schneider's [39] definition is challenging to operationalize because expectation is not a fixed benchmark [25].…”

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“…Student engagement-The quality of effort students themselves devote to educationally purposeful activities that contribute directly to desired outcomes [29] IT user engagement-the number of user actions [17,46] outcome. It does not matter whether users' contributions are outstanding or mediocre; the emphasis is on the fact that they actually make an attempt to make a meaningful contribution.…”

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“…For example, Lehmann et al [35] proposed different models of user engagement with web applications based on online behavioural metrics such as number of unique users, page views, length of visits and return rates. Similarly, Colbert and Boodoo [17] considered a website was more engaging than another one if users stayed longer and visited them more frequently than the other. In the e-learning context, Huang et al [30] referred to "online participation" as the level of students' online involvement, which was quantified through the number of discussion board posts, file views, online session duration, and number of pages read.…”

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A Definition of Community Crowdsourcing Engagement and Application

Nguyen

Tahmasbi

Vreede

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Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation

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“…For example, Colbert and Boodoo created two versions of an online bicycle repair manual and then attracted just under 500 information seekers to each version. Analysis of traffic showed that seekers were more likely to revisit the version of the manual that complied with design guidelines [2]. The opportunity to define the test conditions is the main attraction of this approach.…”

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Studying information interaction in context

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Oliver

2012

Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium

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One way of studying information interaction in context is to conduct traffic experiments. We recently compared different versions of a small website with low traffic volumes to demonstrate some hypothesised effects on information interaction. In this paper, we describe the methodological lessons we learnt when conducting these experiments. The lessons concern: i) implementing versions of the site in a way that supports parallel testing; and ii) designing the web site to operationalise information quality variables (persuasiveness, credibility etc).

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Does 'Letting Go of the Words' Increase Engagement

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Antecedents and learning outcomes of online news engagement

Antecedents and learning outcomes of online news engagement

A Definition of Community Crowdsourcing Engagement and Application

Studying information interaction in context

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