Emerging trends in the WWW user population
Communications of the ACM
Multiple search sessions model of end-user behavior: an exploratory study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
From highly relevant to not relevant: examining different regions of relevance
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
U.S. versus European web searching trends
ACM SIGIR Forum
User information seeking behavior in a medical web portal environment: a preliminary study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
Searching the peer-to-peer networks: the community and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Part II: Information seeking research
Validation of a model of information seeking over multiple search sessions
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Internetworking of factors affecting successive searches over multiple episodes
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Application of automatic topic identification on excite web search engine data logs
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Human information behavior: Integrating diverse approaches and information use
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Automatic new topic identification using multiple linear regression
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
An exploratory web log study of multitasking
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Factors affecting assigned information problem ordering during web search: an exploratory study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Measuring online information seeking context, Part 1: Background and method
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Web searching on the Vivisimo search engine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Understanding accident and emergency department performance using simulation
Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation
Defining a session on Web search engines: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come
A survey on session detection methods in query logs and a proposal for future evaluation
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Application of automatic topic identification on Excite Web search engine data logs
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
How to define searching sessions on web search engines
WebKDD'06 Proceedings of the 8th Knowledge discovery on the web international conference on Advances in web mining and web usage analysis
Identifying the optimal set of parameters for new topic identification through experimental design
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Learning topical transition probabilities in click through data with regression models
Procceedings of the 13th International Workshop on the Web and Databases
Query session detection as a cascade
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Information Systems Research
Information searching behavior: between two principles
CoLIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Context: conceptions of Library and Information Sciences
Automatic task detection in the web logs and analysis of multitasking
ICADL'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
From search session detection to search mission detection
Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Open Research Areas in Information Retrieval
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Recent studies show that humans engage in multitasking behaviors as they seek and search information retrieval (IR) systems for information on more than one topic at the same time. For example, a Web search session by a single user may consist of searching on single topics or multitasking. Findings are presented from four separate studies of the prevalence of multitasking information seeking and searching by Web, IR system, and library users. Incidence of multitasking identified in the four different studies included: (1) users of the Excite Web search engine who completed a survey form, (2) Excite Web search engine users filtered from an Excite transaction log from 20 December 1999, (3) mediated on-line databases searches, and (4) academic library users. Findings include: (1) multitasking information seeking and searching is a common human behavior, (2) users may conduct information seeking and searching on related or unrelated topics, (3) Web or IR multitasking search sessions are longer than single topic sessions, (4) mean number of topics per Web search ranged of 1 to more than 10 topics with a mean of 2.11 topic changes per search session, and (4) many Web search topic changes were from hobbies to shopping and vice versa. A more complex model of human seeking and searching levels that incorporates multitasking information behaviors is presented, and a theoretical framework for human information coordinating behavior (HICB) is proposed. Multitasking information seeking and searching is developing as major research area that draws together IR and information seeking studies toward a focus on IR within the context of human information behavior. Implications for models of information seeking and searching, IR/Web systems design, and further research are discussed.