A comparative study of the effect of search feature design on user experience in digital libraries (DLs)

Authors:
Yuelin Li;Xiangmin Zhang;Ying Zhang;Jingjing Liu
Affiliations:
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ;Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ;Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ;Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Venue:
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This study investigates the impact of different search feature designs in DLs on user search experience. The results indicate that the impact is significant in terms of the number of queries issued, search steps, zero-hits pages returned, and search errors.