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Contextualised Browsing in a Digital Library's Living Lab
Contextualisation has proven to be effective in tailoring \linebreak search
results towards the users' information need. While this is true for a basic
query search, the usage of contextual session information during exploratory
search especially on the level of browsing has so far been underexposed in
research. In this paper, we present two approaches that contextualise browsing
on the level of structured metadata in a Digital Library (DL), (1) one variant
bases on document similarity and (2) one variant utilises implicit session
information, such as queries and different document metadata encountered during
the session of a users. We evaluate our approaches in a living lab environment
using a DL in the social sciences and compare our contextualisation approaches
against a non-contextualised approach. For a period of more than three months
we analysed 47,444 unique retrieval sessions that contain search activities on
the level of browsing. Our results show that a contextualisation of browsing
significantly outperforms our baseline in terms of the position of the first
clicked item in the result set. The mean rank of the first clicked document
(measured as mean first relevant - MFR) was 4.52 using a non-contextualised
ranking compared to 3.04 when re-ranking the result lists based on similarity
to the previously viewed document. Furthermore, we observed that both
contextual approaches show a noticeably higher click-through rate. A
contextualisation based on document similarity leads to almost twice as many
document views compared to the non-contextualised ranking.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, paper accepted at JCDL 201
Counterfactual Estimation and Optimization of Click Metrics for Search Engines
Optimizing an interactive system against a predefined online metric is
particularly challenging, when the metric is computed from user feedback such
as clicks and payments. The key challenge is the counterfactual nature: in the
case of Web search, any change to a component of the search engine may result
in a different search result page for the same query, but we normally cannot
infer reliably from search log how users would react to the new result page.
Consequently, it appears impossible to accurately estimate online metrics that
depend on user feedback, unless the new engine is run to serve users and
compared with a baseline in an A/B test. This approach, while valid and
successful, is unfortunately expensive and time-consuming. In this paper, we
propose to address this problem using causal inference techniques, under the
contextual-bandit framework. This approach effectively allows one to run
(potentially infinitely) many A/B tests offline from search log, making it
possible to estimate and optimize online metrics quickly and inexpensively.
Focusing on an important component in a commercial search engine, we show how
these ideas can be instantiated and applied, and obtain very promising results
that suggest the wide applicability of these techniques
Investigating the contextual requirements of the Juster Scale
Researchers have employed the Juster Scale to collect purchase probability data with notable success. Reviewing the Juster Scale studies, however, has revealed that there is considerable variation in its perÂŹformance. Some of these variations appeared to be caused by the context in which the Juster Scale has been presented to respondents. This paper discusses three factors that influence the context of the Juster Scale and reports the results of a study that attempted to standardise its contextual requirements.
The results substantiate further the Juster Scale's satisfactory performance in collecting purchase probability data
DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING A QUALITY ASSESSMENT SCALE FOR WEB PORTALS
The Web portals business model has spread rapidly over the last few years. Despite this, there have been very few scholarly findings about which services and characteristics make a Web site a portal and which dimensions determine the customersâ evaluation of the portalâs quality. Taking the example of financial portals, the authors develop a theoretical framework of the Web portal quality construct by determining the number and nature of corresponding dimensions, which are: security and trust, basic services quality, cross-buying services quality, added values, transaction support and relationship quality. To measure the six portal quality dimensions, multi item measurement scales are developed and validated.Construct Validation, Customer Retention, E-Banking, E- Loyalty, Service Quality, Web Portals
Critical Success Factors for Positive User Experience in Hotel Websites: Applying Herzberg's Two Factor Theory for User Experience Modeling
This research presents the development of a critical success factor matrix
for increasing positive user experience of hotel websites based upon user
ratings. Firstly, a number of critical success factors for web usability have
been identified through the initial literature review. Secondly, hotel websites
were surveyed in terms of critical success factors identified through the
literature review. Thirdly, Herzberg's motivation theory has been applied to
the user rating and the critical success factors were categorized into two
areas. Finally, the critical success factor matrix has been developed using the
two main sets of data.Comment: Journal articl
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