How people revisit web pages: empirical findings and implications for the design of history systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: World Wide Web usability
Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information search and re-access strategies of experienced web users
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
An investigation of finding and refinding information on the web
An investigation of finding and refinding information on the web
Web page revisitation revisited: implications of a long-term click-stream study of browser usage
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information re-retrieval: repeat queries in Yahoo's logs
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Large scale analysis of web revisitation patterns
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
SearchBar: a search-centric web history for task resumption and information re-finding
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Large scale query log analysis of re-finding
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
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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.