15,694 research outputs found
Understanding Successive Searches Across Multiple Sessions Over the Web
This study intends to enhance the understanding of successive searches over multiple sessions by characterizing successive searches with a conceptual model, Multiple Information Seeking Episodes (MISE), validating MISE and supporting successive searches with a prototyped information system, PERsonalized and Successive Information Seeking Toolkit (PERSIST), whose requirements are derived from MISE. The study has both theoretical and practical values as it increases the understanding of human information behavior and develops useful tools to support the concerned behavior
A Behavioral Perspective on Transmuting Successive Multi-session Web Searches
Multi-session successive information searches are common and could have great implications for effective Web site design. This paper intends to enhance the understanding of successive information searches by observing how the behavioral characteristics of the searchers evolve over sessions. It focuses on a specific type of successive searches called transmuting successive searches, where the searchers learn about and gradually refine their information problems along the course of information searches. The results show that the searchersâ behavioral characteristics indeed exhibit different patterns in different sessions. The results also help validate a theoretical model in explaining successive searches and help revise system requirements for supporting the concerned search behavior
How people find videos
At present very little is known about how people locate and view videos 'in the wild'. This study draws a rich picture of everyday video seeking strategies and video information needs, based on an ethnographic study of New Zealand university students. These insights into the participants' activities and motivations suggest potentially useful facilities for a video digital library
Finding video on the web
At present very little is known about how people locate and view videos. This study draws a rich picture of everyday video seeking strategies and video information needs, based on an ethnographic study of New Zealand university students. These insights into the participantsâ activities and motivations suggest potentially useful facilities for a video digital library
Anticipating Information Needs Based on Check-in Activity
In this work we address the development of a smart personal assistant that is
capable of anticipating a user's information needs based on a novel type of
context: the person's activity inferred from her check-in records on a
location-based social network. Our main contribution is a method that
translates a check-in activity into an information need, which is in turn
addressed with an appropriate information card. This task is challenging
because of the large number of possible activities and related information
needs, which need to be addressed in a mobile dashboard that is limited in
size. Our approach considers each possible activity that might follow after the
last (and already finished) activity, and selects the top information cards
such that they maximize the likelihood of satisfying the user's information
needs for all possible future scenarios. The proposed models also incorporate
knowledge about the temporal dynamics of information needs. Using a combination
of historical check-in data and manual assessments collected via crowdsourcing,
we show experimentally the effectiveness of our approach.Comment: Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search
and Data Mining (WSDM '17), 201
Genres of search: A concept for understanding successive search behaviour
The paper presents Genres of Search, a concept that contributes to our understanding of the successive search phenomenon. The concept is explained in the context of a case study that used naturalistic methods to explore the information-seeking behaviour of 10 participants, aged 16 to 18, as they searched for, selected, and used information for a school-based inquiry project on a topic related to the history of Western civilization. The study found an array of sub-searches, or Genres of Search, embedded within the information problem solving process, each genre representing a distinct information need. The Genres of Search concept is useful for mapping irregularities in successive searching and provides insight into the nature of the tasks involved in the search process
Improving Primo Usability and Teachability with Help from the Users
In the aftermath of a consortium migration to a shared cloud-based resource management and discovery system, a small college library implemented a web usability test to uncover the kinds of difficulties students had with the new interface. Lessons learned from this study led to targeted changes, which simplified aspects of searching, but also enhanced the librariansâ ability to teach more effectively. The authors discuss the testing methods, results, and teaching opportunities, both realized and potential, which arose from implementing changes
- âŠ