A Study of Multitasking Web Search

  • Authors:
  • Seda Ozmutlu;H. Cenk Ozmutlu;Amanda Spink

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITCC '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We present findings from a study of users performingmultitasking searches on Web search engines. A user'ssingle session with a Web search engine may consist ofseeking information on single or multiple topics.Limited research has focused on multitasking searchquery session. The main objective of the study is toprovide a detailed analysis of multitasking sessions.FAST search sessions were used to analyzemultitasking Web searches. Findings include: (1)Almost one third of FAST users perform multitaskingWeb searching (2) multitasking sessions often includedmore than three topics per session (3) multitaskingsessions are longer in duration than regular searchingsessions (4) most of the topic in multitasking searcheswere on general information, computers andentertainment.