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LogUI: Contemporary Logging Infrastructure for Web-Based Experiments

Authors : David Maxwell, Claudia Hauff

Published in: Advances in Information Retrieval

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Logging user interactions is fundamental to capturing and subsequently analysing user behaviours in the context of web-based Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR). However, logging is often implemented within experimental apparatus in a piecemeal fashion, leading to incomplete or noisy data. To address these issues, we present the LogUI logging framework. We use (now ubiquitous) contemporary web technologies to provide an easy-to-use yet powerful framework that can capture virtually any user interaction on a webpage. LogUI removes many of the complexities that must be considered for effective interaction logging.

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Footnotes
1
The DOM is the tree-like structure of HTML elements that constitute a webpage.
 
2
LogUI has been tested with Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.
 
3
Note that the Application Server and LogUI Server are two entirely different processes, and can be run on separate computers (with CORS support enabled).
 
4
LogUI therefore supports contemporary client-side web application frameworks.
 
5
Metadata examples could include the docid for a document presented on a SERP, or, more generally, the condition a participant is assigned to in an A/B test.
 
6
Features could include a UXJs-style [19] analysis interface, or screen capturing.
 
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Metadata
Title
LogUI: Contemporary Logging Infrastructure for Web-Based Experiments
Authors
David Maxwell
Claudia Hauff
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Advances in Information Retrieval

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-72239-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-72240-1

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72240-1_59