Liu, Jingjing and Cole, Michael J. and Liu, Chang and Bierig, Ralf and Gwizdka, Jacek and Belkin, Nicholas J. and Zhang, Jun and Zhang, Xiangmin (2010) Search behaviors in different task types. Proceedings of the 2010 Joint International Conference on Digital Libraries. pp. 69-78.
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Abstract
Personalization of information retrieval tailors search towards individual users to meet their particular information needs by taking into account information about users and their contexts, often through implicit sources of evidence such as user behaviors. Task types have been shown to influence search behaviors including usefulness judgments. This paper reports on an investigation of user behaviors associated with different task types. Twenty-two undergraduate journalism students participated in a controlled lab experiment, each searching on four tasks which varied on four dimensions: complexity, task product, task goal and task level. Results indicate regular differences associated with different task characteristics in several search behaviors, including task completion time, decision time (the time taken to decide whether a document is useful or not), and eye fixations, etc. We suggest these behaviors can be used as implicit indicators of the user's task type.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Personalization; Information retrieval; Task type; User behavior; Eye tracking; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute |
| Item ID: | 15219 |
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1145/1816123.1816134 |
| Depositing User: | Ralf Bierig |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2022 13:05 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the 2010 Joint International Conference on Digital Libraries |
| Publisher: | ACM |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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