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Graphical Web directory for Web search
2003
Behavior and Information Technology
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The feature graphical Web directory for supporting information processing and decision making in Web directory browsing in Web search is proposed to improve users' performance and satisfaction. ...
The results of the experiment indicated that (a) the enhancement of this feature improved users' initial and overall search performance by 32.6 and 43.4%, respectively, (b) the enhancement of this feature ...
When users search the Web, the overwhelming information on the Web places a huge workload on them. ...
doi:10.1080/0144929031000092222
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The Semantic Web
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2006
Agency and the Semantic Web
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To appreciate the challenges of computer-based consumption of Web-based information, we consider the following scenario. Suppose we are searching the Web for information on a specific ailment. ...
As a result, a great deal of the potential of the Web has yet to be realized. This book explores the challenges of automatic computer-based processing of information on the Web. ...
At present, the Web relies entirely on the human user to supplement the information with knowledge to make use of the information. ...
doi:10.1093/oso/9780199292486.003.0007
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Building Support for Web Information Gathering Tasks
2012
2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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Web information gathering includes tasks in which users attempt to locate, organize, and use information from different sources on the web to satisfy an information need, often over multiple sessions. ...
The results of the study provide insight into the area's most needing support in order to provide guidance for the building of new tools to support users in these tasks. ...
Amin (2009) identified different characteristics in web information gathering tasks. Information gathering was shown to be a more complex task than keyword search tasks. ...
doi:10.1109/hicss.2012.136
dblp:conf/hicss/AlhenshiriWSD12
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A Goal-based Classification of Web Information Tasks
2007
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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While researchers have been studying user activity on the Web since its inception, there remains a lack of understanding of the high level tasks in which users engage on the Web. ...
on the Web. ...
We would like to thank the members of the WIFL and EDGE research labs. We are also grateful to the 21 participants who took part in the field study. ...
doi:10.1002/meet.14504301121
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Consumer web search behaviour: diagrammatic illustration of wayfinding on the web
2000
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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The WWW is obviously a service and hence e!ective WWW use depends in part on the development of the user's own search skills. ...
Thus, the investigation of the use of the diagrams for WWW user training may also be a fruitful area of research, with the outcome being of bene"t to both consumers and WWW site proprietors generally. ...
of information search on the web. ...
doi:10.1006/ijhc.1999.0357
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Usability Evaluation for Museum Web Sites
2001
Museum Management and Curatorship
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Evaluation is essential for determining whether a Web site is meeting the needs of its users and should be part of an ongoing process, from initial conception to long-term maintenance and development. ...
For many smaller museums the cost of developing and maintaining a Web site is difficult to justify, particularly where the economic benefit to the museum is hard to demonstrate. ...
Acknowledgements Thanks are due to both Stephen Alsford, Webmaster at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI) for providing access to internal reports ...
doi:10.1080/09647770100201903
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Usability evaluation for museum web sites
2001
International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship
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Evaluation is essential for determining whether a Web site is meeting the needs of its users and should be part of an ongoing process, from initial conception to long-term maintenance and development. ...
For many smaller museums the cost of developing and maintaining a Web site is difficult to justify, particularly where the economic benefit to the museum is hard to demonstrate. ...
Acknowledgements Thanks are due to both Stephen Alsford, Webmaster at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI) for providing access to internal reports ...
doi:10.1016/s0260-4779(01)00017-6
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How users assess Web pages for information seeking
2005
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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task performed and the stage of the search. ...
We investigated the relative utility of features identified by participants (web page content, structure and quality), and how the importance of these features is affected by the type of information-seeking ...
The authors also wish to thank the searchers who participated in the study. This research is funded by the EPSRC (U.K.) research grant GR/R74642/01. ...
doi:10.1002/asi.20106
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Remote Usability Evaluation of Mobile Web Applications
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2013
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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In this paper, we discuss some specific aspects that need to be considered in remote usability of mobile Web applications, and introduce a novel environment that aims to address such issues. ...
Recent proliferation of mobile devices has made it important to provide automatic support for usability evaluation when people interact with mobile applications. ...
A different approach consists in gathering information on actual user behaviour and helping evaluators in analysing it in order to identify possible usability problems. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39232-0_27
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Improving web search on small screen devices
2003
Interacting with computers
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-are increasingly being used to access the web. Search engines are the most used web services and are an important factor of user support. ...
An experiment was carried out to compare users' abilities to complete search tasks using a mobile phone-sized, handheld computer-sized and conventional, desktop interface to the full Googlee index. ...
Acknowledgements Thanks to Craig Nevill-Manning of the Research Group at Google Inc., who provided technical information and advice about the WAP and PDA search index and preprocessing. ...
doi:10.1016/s0953-5438(03)00036-5
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Personalisation of Web Search
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2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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This chapter describes the many techniques that have been applied to adapt the web search process to the individual user. ...
is stored (client-side or server-side), the algorithm used to incorporate the information about the user into the search and how information is presented to the user (mobile devices present some unique ...
The system is initially trained using manually annotated logs of session histories to identify information content (IC) pages -pages that contain information relevant to the user -based on browsing behaviour ...
doi:10.1007/11577935_11
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A Survey of Web Mining and Various Web Mining Techniques
2019
International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology
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The search engine are depends on the ranking technology instead of the other vector based approaches. This paper will focuses on different web mining techniques and the various algorithm used in it. ...
Mining is essence of valuable information from the huge set of raw information. Mining techniques in data mining is known as web mining. ...
The information selection is type of conversion process of initial data.We suggest decomposition web mining in to the sub task.
A. Resources Identify Task of fetching intended web document.
B. ...
doi:10.22214/ijraset.2019.9130
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Stigmergy in web 2.0
2012
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference on - WebSci '12
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Some of these models attempt to show how the volume of users provides a selforganising and self-contextualisation of content. ...
Understanding what site traits contribute to this success drives research into Web sites mechanics using models to describe the associated social networking behaviour. ...
If web site functionality and the information available to users are controlled by the web site design then we would expect to see stigmergy being a significantly more useful model for analysing user behaviour ...
doi:10.1145/2380718.2380731
dblp:conf/websci/DippleRD12
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Multitasking, cognitive coordination and cognitive shifts during web searching
2011
SIGIR Forum
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Users' Web searching behaviour was a process of multiple tasks switching, that is, from searching on one information problem to searching another. ...
users' emotional control on the search behaviour varied depending on search tasks. ...
Appendix A
Participation Information and Consent Form PSS 1, 80, 147, 165 2, 11, 19, 23, 28, 34, 64, 68, 94, 98, 103, 124, 132 2, 15, 28, 45, 53 IT to GS CRF 9, 28, 75, 95, 101, 118, 12 1, 124, ...
doi:10.1145/1988852.1988869
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World Wide Web navigation aid
2000
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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The Browser The Web Objective: Perform information retrieval tasks Objective: Facilitate information access Objective: Provide information sources Tasks: Identify, search, browse, organize, rediscover ...
In this paper, a framework is proposed to identify and investigate key factors that determine the Web browser's ability to assist users in performing various information retrieval tasks. ...
We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers of this manuscript for their valuable comments and suggestions. ...
doi:10.1006/ijhc.2000.0392
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