A behavioral approach to information retrieval system design
Journal of Documentation
Information retrieval interaction
Information retrieval interaction
Communications of the ACM
Emerging trends in the WWW user population
Communications of the ACM
Internet and Web use in the U.S.
Communications of the ACM
Given a context by any other name: methodological tools for taming the unruly beast
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
A public library based on full-text retrieval
Communications of the ACM
Usage analysis of a digital library
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries
Interfaces and tools for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
What are digital libraries? Competing visions
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on progress toward digital libraries
Alexandria digital library: user evaluation studies and system design
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - digital libraries: Part 1
A user-centered interface for information exploration in a hetergeneous digital library
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - digital libraries: Part 1
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
The production of ‘context’ in information seeking research: a metatheoretical view
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
The role of the internet in information seeking: putting the networked services in context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Exploring models of information behaviour: the ‘uncertainty’ project
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Users' interaction with World Wide Web resources: an exploratory study using a holistic approach
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Cognitive approach for building user model in an information retrieval context (poster session)
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A review of web searching studies and a framework for future research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
In search of query patterns: a case study of a university OPAC
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Twenty-five years of end-user searching, Part 1: Research findings
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Exploring usefulness and usability in the evaluation of open access digital libraries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Factors affecting the selection of search tactics: Tasks, knowledge, process, and systems
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
User's Behaviour inside a Digital Library
International Journal of Decision Support System Technology
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The emergence of general audience digital libraries (GADLs) defines a context that represents a hybrid of both "traditional" IR, using primarily bibliographic resources provided by database vendors, and "popular" IR, exemplified by public search systems available on the World Wide Web. Findings of a study investigating end-user searching and response to a GADL are reported. Data collected from a Web-based end-user survey and data logs of resource usage for a Web-based GADL were analyzed for user characteristics, patterns of access and use, and user feedback. Cross-tabulations using respondent demographics revealed several key differences in how the system was used and valued by users of different age groups. Older users valued the service more than younger users and engaged in different searching and viewing behaviors. The GADL more closely resembles traditional retrieval systems in terms of content and purpose of use, but is more similar to popular IR systems in terms of user behavior and accessibility. A model that defines the dual context of the GADL environment is derived from the data analysis and existing IR models in general and other specific contexts. The authors demonstrate the distinguishing characteristics of this IR context, and discuss implications for the development and evaluation of future GADLs to accommodate a variety of user needs and expectations.