Paper Info
Title
Information Gathering Tasks on the Web: Attempting to Identify the User Search Behaviour.
Abstract
This paper presents a part of a larger research study that concerned investigating the task of information gathering on the Web. The study took several subtasks of the information gathering task for investigations in order to develop recommendations for improving the design of tools intended for this type of task. Since information gathering is a highly search-reliant task, it was important to investigate the kind of search behavior users follow during the task. The research discussed in this paper attempts to identify the user search behaviour during information gathering on the Web. The results of the user study indicate that the user search behaviour during Web information gathering tasks has characteristics of both orienteering and teleporting behaviours.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-36608-6_9
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Web,gathering,Information,User,Task,Search,Re-finding,Study
Data mining,World Wide Web,Orienteering,Computer science,Web information
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
140
1865-1348
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anwar Alhenshiri1275.64
Carolyn R. Watters2970107.76
Michael A. Shepherd349367.67
Jack Duffy4788.96