Contextual factors for finding similar experts
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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
Implicit acquisition of context for personalization of information retrieval systems
Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation
The scope of external information-seeking under uncertainty: An individual-level study
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
The impact of task phrasing on the choice of search keywords and on the search process and success
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Assigning search tasks designed to elicit exploratory search behaviors
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Relationship between the nature of the search task types and query reformulation behaviour
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
The Effect of Social and Physical Detachment on Information Need
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Modeling search processes using hidden states in collaborative exploratory web search
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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This study focuses on the task as a fundamental factor in the context of information seeking. The purpose of the study is to characterize kinds of tasks and to examine how different kinds of task give rise to different kinds of information-seeking behavior on the Web. For this, a model for information-seeking behavior was used employing dimensions of information-seeking strategies (ISS), which are based on several behavioral dimensions. The analysis of strategies was based on data collected through an experiment designed to observe users' behaviors. Three tasks were assigned to 30 graduate students and data were collected using questionnaires, search logs, and interviews. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data identified 14 distinct information-seeking strategies. The analysis showed significant differences in the frequencies and patterns of ISS employed between three tasks. The results of the study are intended to facilitate the development of task-based information-seeking models and to further suggest Web information system designs that support the user's diverse tasks. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.