Attributes of images in describing tasks
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
An analysis of image queries in the field of art history
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Image searching on the Excite web search engine
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A conceptual framework and empirical research for classifying visual descriptors
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Searching for images: the analysis of users' queries for image retrieval in American history
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
On contexts of information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
How people describe their image information needs: a grounded theory analysis of visual arts queries
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Image querying by image professionals: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Looking for a picture: an analysis of everyday image information searching
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Image retrieval by end-users and intermediaries in a journalistic work context
IIiX Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context
Context in information behavior research
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Image use within the work task model: Images as information and illustration
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A comparative study of Flickr tags and index terms in a general image collection
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Effects of contextual factors on image searching on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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As a way of understanding the image needs of users, researchers in the image retrieval field have investigated contextual factors affecting image needs and search behaviours. In terms of both general users芒聙聶 groups and non-domain-specific collections on the web, the purpose of this study is to investigate how image needs are interwoven with intended uses which are in varying degrees of image use purposes. Thus, the image-seeking questions posted in a social Q&A service were analysed for their content. The findings of this study indicate that image uses as sources of objects are found more frequently than image uses as sources of data. Moreover, in order to analyse a more detailed underlying structure of image needs and uses, image attributes were examined in terms of three categories including semantics (e.g. ofness and aboutness), non-visual features (e.g. bibliographic information) and syntactic features (e.g. focal point). This study indicates that abstract attributes and specific attributes were distinctively recognized depending on image uses, even though proportion generic attributes were found more frequently. Users are likely to seek images using abstract attributes when they intend to use images as sources of object and specific attributes when using the images as sources of data. More importantly, among the contextual attributes, a similarity component was found to be a universal attribute that was used in all seven image uses, while the attributes in the non-visual and syntactic categories were not frequently used. The findings of this study can be applied to image retrieval systems in terms of improving image indexing practices and expanding search interfaces.