TY - GEN
T1 - A comparison of how users search on web finding and re-finding tasks
AU - Pu, Hsiao Tieh
AU - Jiang, Xin Yu
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This study is to investigate how users search for web information for the first time (information finding) and locate previously found results on a subsequent effort (information re-finding). It constructs a two-staged experiment and employs various methods to compare users' search performance on different types of search tasks. The preliminary results show that participants in the study produced more interactions with search tools in the re-finding stage. Though the participants spent less time in the re-finding than that in the finding stage, the difference was not significant. It is worth noting that in some cases the search performance of re-finding was even lower than that of finding. This reveals that re-finding may not work effectively for all search tasks. Further research is needed to investigate on what circumstances users had better initiate new searches rather than repeat previous searches in the re-finding stage.
AB - This study is to investigate how users search for web information for the first time (information finding) and locate previously found results on a subsequent effort (information re-finding). It constructs a two-staged experiment and employs various methods to compare users' search performance on different types of search tasks. The preliminary results show that participants in the study produced more interactions with search tools in the re-finding stage. Though the participants spent less time in the re-finding than that in the finding stage, the difference was not significant. It is worth noting that in some cases the search performance of re-finding was even lower than that of finding. This reveals that re-finding may not work effectively for all search tasks. Further research is needed to investigate on what circumstances users had better initiate new searches rather than repeat previous searches in the re-finding stage.
KW - Information finding
KW - Information re-finding
KW - Web information search behavior
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U2 - 10.1145/1940761.1940822
DO - 10.1145/1940761.1940822
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952608791
SN - 9781450301213
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 446
EP - 451
BT - Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
T2 - 6th Annual Conference on 2011 iConference: Inspiration, Integrity, and Intrepidity, iConference 2011
Y2 - 8 February 2011 through 11 February 2011
ER -