An analysis of image retrieval behavior for metadata type image database

Toru Fukumoto
2006 Information Processing & Management  
The aim of this paper was to analyze usersÕ behavior during image retrieval exercises. Results revealed that users tend to follow a set search strategy: firstly they input one or two keyword search terms one after another and view the images generated by their initial search and after they navigate their way around the web by using the Ôback to homeÕ or Ôprevious pageÕ buttons. These results are consistent with existing Web research. Many of the actions recorded revealed that subjects behavior
more » ... iffered depending on if the task set was presented as a closed or open task. In contrast no differences were found for the time subjects took to perform a single action or their use of the AND operator.
doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2005.01.008 fatcat:wafhryvs4bfbjdsgdldzaqkeuq