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An investigation of search processes in collaborative exploratory web search

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: This paper presents a user study aiming to investigate search processes in collaborative exploratory Web search. Our analysis of search processes focuses on the distribution and transition of user search actions captured in a collaborative web search system called CollabSearch. The results show that a large proportion of users' actions in collaborative searches were related to explicit communication, which is one of the sources for users to obtain query ideas. This paper concludes with some insights on the range of behaviors and activities that a collaborative search system should support.

Source: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504901197

Authors: Zhen Yue, Shuguang Han, Daqing He

Institution: University of Pittsburgh

Language: English

Topic: Information Retrieval and Search Behavior

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation

Awards: III-COR: Collaborative Research: User-centric, Adaptive and Collaborative Information Filtering, EAGER: Tapping into Public Academic Information on the Social Web: Towards a Novel Academic Recommendation Framework