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Online search stopping behaviors: An investigation of query abandonment and task stopping
2014
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Results show that participants made query abandonment decisions based on the properties of search results, of queries and of search tasks. ...
Past research on search stopping behavior has primarily focused on the stopping behavior that takes place at the conclusion of an information-seeking task. ...
CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS Our work investigated two types of search stopping behavior, query abandonment and task stopping, using assigned search tasks in a controlled laboratory environment. ...
doi:10.1002/meet.2014.14505101030
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Using information scent and need for cognition to understand online search behavior
2014
Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval - SIGIR '14
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which two theories, Information Scent and Need for Cognition, explain people's search behaviors when interacting with search engine results pages ...
The interaction between NFC and the number of relevant results on the SERP affected the time spent on searching and a participant's likelihood to reformulate, paginate and stop. ...
Jaime Arguello, Nicholas Belkin, Robert Capra and Barbara Wildemuth for their input about research design, and Dr. Chris Wiesen for his assistance with statistical analysis. ...
doi:10.1145/2600428.2609626
dblp:conf/sigir/WuKS14
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User Behavior in Asynchronous Slow Search
2016
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - SIGIR '16
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We analyze the resulting survey results and interaction log data to investigate how users spent their time while waiting, and how behavior and search outcomes changes when users are given the option of ...
effectively as they gain exposure to its behavior across tasks. ...
We thank Eytan Adar, Yan Chen, and the anonymous reviewers for their feedback. ...
doi:10.1145/2911451.2911541
dblp:conf/sigir/BurtonC16
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Understanding PubMed(R) user search behavior through log analysis
2009
Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation
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This article reports on a detailed investigation of PubMed users' needs and behavior as a step toward improving biomedical information retrieval. ...
This investigation was conducted through the analysis of one month of log data, consisting of more than 23 million user sessions and more than 58 million user queries. ...
Acknowledgements The authors are thankful to the NCBI/IEB colleagues for their technical support and assistance, and also to John Wilbur for his comments and helpful discussions. ...
doi:10.1093/database/bap018
pmid:20157491
pmcid:PMC2797455
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Using Contextual Information to Understand Searching and Browsing Behavior
2015
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - SIGIR '15
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Using contextual information to understand searching and browsing behavior Eindhoven: ...
Hence many sessions stop without an explicit user action, making it hard to discern good and bad search abandonment from interaction log data. ...
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Tasks The tasks for web search were designed to encourage answer-seeking behavior and increase the likelihood of good abandonment. ...
doi:10.1145/2766462.2767852
dblp:conf/sigir/Kiseleva15
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User behavior modeling for Web search evaluation
2020
AI Open
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Batch evaluation of the performance of search systems to their users has always been an essential issue in the field of information retrieval. ...
In this survey, we comprehensively review the development of user behavior modeling for Web search evaluation and related works of different model-based evaluation metrics. ...
Recently, session search evaluation has been paid more attention since realistic search tasks usually involve multiple queries and multi-round search interactions (e.g. exploratory search (White and Roth ...
doi:10.1016/j.aiopen.2021.02.003
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Student Searching Behavior and the Web: Use of Academic Resources and Google
2005
Library Trends
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Results of students' perceptions of ease of use, success, time taken to search, and reasons for stopping a search are also presented. ...
The results presented here focus on student searching behavior and show that commercial Internet search engines dominate students' information-seeking strategy. ...
Each participant searched for the fifteen test queries and completed questionnaires for each task undertaken. ...
dblp:journals/libt/GriffithsB05
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Optimal Foraging Theory's Application to Internet Sex Offender Search Behavior: A Theoretical Model for Computer Forensic Investigations
2013
Journal of Forensic Investigation
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It also draws on investigations of sex offenders and their behavior in searching for and selecting targets. ...
Understanding the behavior of this population could result in better investigation and prevention methods. ...
To accomplish this task, we take the principles of OFT that have been used to explain animal and human behavior and apply them to the potential behavior of Internet sex offenders. ...
doi:10.13188/2330-0396.1000002
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A study on tolerable waiting time: how long are Web users willing to wait?
2004
Behavior and Information Technology
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It addresses the following questions through an experimental study: What is the effect of feedback on users' tolerable waiting time? ...
Although various technologies and techniques have been implemented to alleviate the situation and to comfort the impatient users, little research has been done to assess what constitutes an acceptable ...
Querying refers to serious search with specific requirement and often involves a highly complicated search strategy such as the use of Boolean operators (i.e. AND/OR). ...
doi:10.1080/01449290410001669914
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Exploring behavior of E-journal users in science and technology: Transaction log analysis of Elsevier's ScienceDirect OnSite in Taiwan
2002
Library & Information Science Research
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Analysis of usage of such online systems can provide valuable information on user behavior, and on usage of electronic information in general. ...
Because information retrieval (IR) systems are indispensable in assisting these processes, the research into the assessment and improvement of IR systems to satisfy users' needs is an important part of ...
Acknowledgments The authors thank Yi-Fen Chen, Ming-Chun Yang, Dai-Yi Wang, and Chung-Wei Huang for their help with several statistics reported in this article and the preliminary datamining study. ...
doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(02)00126-3
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Exploration of dynamic query suggestions and dynamic search results for their effects on search behaviors
2012
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Based on the availability of these two features, 36 participants were assigned to three conditions and were asked to complete an exploratory search task. ...
The findings also indicate a need to evaluate search interface features in the broader context of task completion rather than information searching and query running only. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are thankful to Abhijna Baddi and Kanan Parikh for their invaluable efforts in helping to run the user study described here. ...
doi:10.1002/meet.14504901135
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MatOFF: A tool for analyzing behaviorally complex neurophysiological experiments
2007
Journal of Neuroscience Methods
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of complex behaviors. ...
An example from a recently published experiment shows how all the features of MatOFF work together to analyze complex experiments and mine neurophysiological data in efficient ways. ...
Paul Cisek for his comments on an early version of the manuscript. This research was supported by the Intramural Program of the NIH, National Institute of Mental Health. ...
doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.05.026
pmid:17604115
pmcid:PMC1987365
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Evaluating mobile web search performance by taking good abandonment into account
2014
Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval - SIGIR '14
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This article provides an offline metric for quality evaluation of mobile Web search, which takes good abandonment rate into consideration. ...
The common tendency is that users want to receive information immediately results in incorporating rich snippets and vertical results into search engine result pages (SERPs) and in increasing of good abandonment ...
The increase of satisfaction of mobile web search users became an important task in information retrieval [5] . ...
doi:10.1145/2600428.2609505
dblp:conf/sigir/ArkhipovaG14
fatcat:5xazp7mzy5gsxpijudtxhjy2wa
Modeling browsing behavior for click analysis in sponsored search
2012
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '12
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I am forever indebted to Charlie for his friendship and for providing by far the best research collaboration and experience of my career. ...
Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to thank my advisor, Charles Clarke, from who I learned a lot throughout these years. ...
These parameters are learned and updated in an online fashion.
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Modeling User Browsing and Click Behavior in Sponsored Search While the findings of the previous chapter provide insight ...
doi:10.1145/2396761.2398563
dblp:conf/cikm/AshkanC12
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The Impact of Ad-Blockers on Product Search and Purchase Behavior: A Lab Experiment
2020
USENIX Security Symposium
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searched for and purchased various products online, and the resulting consumer welfare. ...
We focus on the effects of blocking contextual ads (ads targeted to individual, potentially sensitive, contexts, such as search queries in a search engine or the content of web pages) on how participants ...
Acquisti also gratefully acknowledges support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York via an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. ...
dblp:conf/uss/FrikHA20
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