Paper Info
Title
A comparison of how users search on web finding and re-finding tasks
Abstract
This study is to investigate how users search for web information for the first time (information finding) and locate previously found results on a subsequent effort (information re-finding). It constructs a two-staged experiment and employs various methods to compare users' search performance on different types of search tasks. The preliminary results show that participants in the study produced more interactions with search tools in the re-finding stage. Though the participants spent less time in the re-finding than that in the finding stage, the difference was not significant. It is worth noting that in some cases the search performance of re-finding was even lower than that of finding. This reveals that re-finding may not work effectively for all search tasks. Further research is needed to investigate on what circumstances users had better initiate new searches rather than repeat previous searches in the re-finding stage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1940761.1940822
iConference 2011
Keywords
Field
DocType
search tool,new search,search performance,web finding,search task,finding stage,re-finding task,re-finding stage,information finding,users search,information re-finding,repeat previous search
World Wide Web,Search engine,Semantic search,Information retrieval,Computer science,Information finding,Search analytics,Web information
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
12
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hsiao-Tieh Pu114912.13
Xinyu Jiang288.27