Users' interaction with World Wide Web resources: an exploratory study using a holistic approach
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Describing and predicting information-seeking behavior on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Patterns of query reformulation during Web searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Analyzing and evaluating query reformulation strategies in web search logs
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Analysis of multiple query reformulations on the web: The interactive information retrieval context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Analysis and evaluation of query reformulations in different task types
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Web searching interaction model based on user cognitive styles
Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
User-web interactions: how wholistic/analytic web users search the web?
Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
Relationship between the nature of the search task types and query reformulation behaviour
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
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This paper discusses users' query reformulation behaviour while searching information on the Web. Query reformulations have emerged as an important component of Web search behaviour and human-computer interaction (HCI) because a user's success of information retrieval (IR) depends on how he or she formulates queries. There are various factors, such as cognitive styles, that influence users' query reformulation behaviour. Understanding how users with different cognitive styles formulate their queries while performing Web searches can help HCI researchers and information systems (IS) developers to provide assistance to the users. This paper aims to examine the effects of users' cognitive styles on their query reformation behaviour. To achieve the goal of the study, a user study was conducted in which a total of 3613 search terms and 872 search queries were submitted by 50 users who engaged in 150 scenario-based search tasks. Riding's (1991) Cognitive Style Analysis (CSA) test was used to assess users' cognitive style as wholist or analytic, and verbaliser or imager. The study findings show that users' query reformulation behaviour is affected by their cognitive styles. The results reveal that analytic users tended to prefer Add queries while all other users preferred New queries. A significant difference was found among wholists and analytics in the manner they performed Remove query reformulations. Future HCI researchers and IS developers can utilize the study results to develop interactive and personalised search model, and to provide context-based query suggestions for users.