@inproceedings{95de96f033dd4e0c9919fdb0b98e382c,
title = "Do highlights affect comprehension? Lessons from a user study",
abstract = "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 [20]. 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. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).",
keywords = "Annotation, Comprehension, Highlighting, Reading, Social reading",
author = "Samuel Dodson and Luanne Freund and Rick Kopak",
year = "2017",
month = mar,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1145/3020165.3022158",
language = "English",
series = "CHIIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "381--384",
booktitle = "CHIIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval",
note = "2nd ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2017 ; Conference date: 07-03-2017 Through 11-03-2017",
}