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We describe the Web StoryBase, a system using HTML forms technology to collect and share stories and story annotations from users of the World Wide Web. We analyse usage data collected over a period of 26 weeks, from the perspective of how the system was advertised, contributed to, and browsed. We also discuss several themes extracted from the reported Web experiences: usability, learnability, diversity, communication, just-in-time information, capture and fun.
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Rosson, M.B., Carroll, J.M., Messner, D. (1996). A Web StoryBase. In: Sasse, M.A., Cunningham, R.J., Winder, R.L. (eds) People and Computers XI. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3588-3_23
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