IRCHIVER: An Information-Centric Personal Web Archive for Revisiting Past Online Sensemaking Tasks

The dynamic nature of web content poses unique challenges to revisiting past online sensemaking tasks.We investigate the value and usage patterns of a personal web archive that treats consumed information as first-class object in both information re-finding and mental model reconstruction.In this work, we introduce a new system called irchiver that passively captures screenshots of active browser windows, extracts text from screenshots and page sources, CCS Concepts Human-centered computing Human computer interaction (HCI); Information systems World Wide Web.