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The Effects of Search Environment and Task Realism on Search Behavior
2001
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
This paper presents a study which compared user search behavior across an open search environment (the World Wide Web) and a closed search environment (an on-line library card catalog). Users performed a structured search task, where they were given topics to search for, and a self-directed search task, where they could choose their own topics. Search tasks were defined based on a qualitative, three-stage model of search behavior. Results showed that overall, search behavior tended to be very
doi:10.1177/154193120104500609
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