On Pause: How Online Instructional Videos are Used to Achieve Practical Tasks
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Instructional videos have become an important site of everyday learning. This paper explores how these videos are used to complete practical tasks, analyzing video-recorded interactions between pairs of users. Users need to repeatedly pause their videos to be able to follow the instructions, and we document how pausing is used to coordinate and interweave watching and doing. We describe four purposes and types of pausing: finding task objects, turning to action, keeping up, and fixing problems. Building on these results, we discuss how video players could better support following instructions, and the role of basic user interface functions in complex tasks involving different forms of engagement with the physical world and with screen-based activity.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. |
Publication date | 21 Apr 2020 |
Article number | 3376759 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450367080 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 21 Apr 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020 - Honolulu, United States Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020 |
Conference
Conference | 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020 |
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Land | United States |
By | Honolulu |
Periode | 25/04/2020 → 30/04/2020 |
Sponsor | ACM SIGCHI |
Series | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings |
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Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
We thank our participants and our group members for comments on earlier drafts. This work was supported by the Marcus and Amelia Wallenberg grant 2015.0075.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
- ethnomethodology, instructional videos, pause button, video interface, video players
Research areas
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