The adoption of university library Web site resources: A multigroup analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Search behaviors in different task types
Proceedings of the 10th annual joint conference on Digital libraries
An exploration of the relationships between work tasks and users' interaction performance
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Linking search tasks with low-level eye movement patterns
Proceedings of the 28th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
The impact of task complexity on people's mental models of MedlinePlus
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Factors affecting the selection of search tactics: Tasks, knowledge, process, and systems
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Task complexity, vertical display and user interaction in aggregated search
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Assigning search tasks designed to elicit exploratory search behaviors
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Aggregated search interface preferences in multi-session search tasks
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A cross-domain analysis of task and genre effects on perceptions of usefulness
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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To provide a basis for making predictions of the characteristics of search task (ST), based on work task (WT), and to explore the nature of WT and ST, this study examines the relationships between WT and ST (inter-relationships) and the relationships between the different facets of both WT and ST (intra-relationships), respectively. A faceted classification of task was used to conceptualize work task and search task. Twenty-four pairs of work tasks and their associated search tasks were collected, by semistructured interviews, and classified based on the classification. The results indicate that work task shapes different facets or sub-facets of its associated search tasks to different degrees. Several sub-facets of search task, such as Time (Length), Objective task complexity, and Subjective task complexity, are most strongly affected by work task. The results demonstrate that it is necessary to consider difficulty and complexity as different constructs when investigating their influence on information search behavior. The exploration of intra-relationships illustrates the difference of work task and search task in their nature. The findings provide empirical evidence to support the view that work task and search task are multi-faceted variables and their different effects on users' information search behavior should be examined. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.