A behavioral approach to information retrieval system design
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Information filtering based on user behavior analysis and best match text retrieval
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
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Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Methodology matters: doing research in the behavioral and social sciences
Human-computer interaction
Emerging trends in the WWW user population
Communications of the ACM
How people revisit web pages: empirical findings and implications for the design of history systems
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Information behaviour: an interdisciplinary perspective
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Web searching behavior of aerospace engineers (poster abstract)
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Learning user's preferences by analyzing Web-browsing behaviors
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies
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Searching the Web: the public and their queries
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How knowledge workers use the web
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A longitudinal study of World Wide Web users' information-searching behavior
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Cognitive and task influences on Web searching behavior
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
What do web users do? An empirical analysis of web use
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ACM SIGIR Forum
Spreadsheet structure inspection using low level access and visualisation
AUIC '03 Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian user interface conference on User interfaces 2003 - Volume 18
WebScout: Support for Revisitation of Web Pages within a Navigation Session
WI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence
Implicit feedback for inferring user preference: a bibliography
ACM SIGIR Forum
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
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Understanding user goals in web search
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Hourly analysis of a very large topically categorized web query log
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Privacy gradients: exploring ways to manage incidental information during co-located collaboration
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Web browsing today: the impact of changing contexts on user activity
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An evaluation of landmarks for re-finding information on the web
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The advantages of a cross-session web workspace
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A temporal comparison of AltaVista Web searching: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Automatic identification of user goals in Web search
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Information search and re-access strategies of experienced web users
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Associating search and navigation behavior through log analysis: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Examining the content and privacy of web browsing incidental information
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Off the beaten tracks: exploring three aspects of web navigation
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Using web browser interactions to predict task
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
The impact of task on the usage of web browser navigation mechanisms
GI '06 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2006
Determining the informational, navigational, and transactional intent of Web queries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Differences between informational and transactional tasks in information seeking on the web
Proceedings of the second international symposium on Information interaction in context
Task Effects on Interactive Search: The Query Factor
Focused Access to XML Documents
An examination of daily information needs and sharing opportunities
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Building support for multi-session tasks
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Predicting user interests from contextual information
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using the taxonomy of cognitive learning to model online searching
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Addressing gaps in knowledge while reading
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The role of subjective factors in the information search process
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
An empirical analysis of engineers' information behaviors
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Multitasking bar: prototype and evaluation of introducing the task concept into a browser
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Do you want to take notes?: identifying research missions in Yahoo! search pad
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to Transform the Web
No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to Transform the Web
Comparing Google to ask-a-librarian service for answering factual and topical questions
ECDL'09 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Search behaviors in different task types
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Personalizing information retrieval for multi-session tasks: the roles of task stage and task type
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information interaction in molecular medicine: integrated use of multiple channels
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Helping identify when users find useful documents: examination of query reformulation intervals
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The effect of task type and topic familiarity on information search behaviors
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
An elaborated model of social search
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
An approach to situational market segmentation on on-line newspapers based on current tasks
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UIST '10 Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Predicting task difficulty for different task types
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Action prediction and identification from mining temporal user behaviors
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Characterizing the usability of interactive applications through query log analysis
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An analysis of personal collections among users of social media
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Modeling and analysis of cross-session search tasks
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An approach to early recognition of web user tasks by the surfing behavior
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CONTEXT'11 Proceedings of the 7th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context
Query-feature graphs: bridging user vocabulary and system functionality
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Towards evaluation of personalized and collaborative information retrieval
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Combining the Best of Two Worlds: NLP and IR for Intranet Search
WI-IAT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Large-scale analysis of individual and task differences in search result page examination strategies
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Effective information gathering on the web
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
VDMs for finding and re-finding web search results
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
"It's simply integral to what I do": enquiries into how the web is weaved into everyday life
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Direct answers for search queries in the long tail
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Distributed sensemaking: improving sensemaking by leveraging the efforts of previous users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Characterizing web use on smartphones
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An examination of multisession web tasks
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Barriers to task-based information access in molecular medicine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Analyzing characteristic host access patterns for re-identification of web user sessions
NordSec'10 Proceedings of the 15th Nordic conference on Information Security Technology for Applications
Navigating tomorrow's web: From searching and browsing to visual exploration
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Search, interrupted: understanding and predicting search task continuation
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Task complexity, vertical display and user interaction in aggregated search
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Task complexity and information searching in administrative tasks revisited
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Task tours: helping users tackle complex search tasks
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Evaluating web archive search systems
WISE'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Characterizing and supporting cross-device search tasks
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Designing web-connected physical artefacts for the 'aesthetic' of the home
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Enhancing personalized search by mining and modeling task behavior
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Ordinary search engine users carrying out complex search tasks
Journal of Information Science
Examining users' knowledge change in the task completion process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Classifying queries submitted to a vertical search engine
Proceedings of the 3rd International Web Science Conference
Standing on the schemas of giants: socially augmented information foraging
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
The use of query suggestions during information search
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Previous studies have examined various aspects of user behavior on the Web, including general information-seeking patterns, search engine use, and revisitation habits. Little research has been conducted to study how users navigate and interact with their Web browser across different information-seeking tasks. We have conducted a field study of 21 participants, in which we logged detailed Web usage and asked participants to provide task categorizations of their Web usage based on the following categories: Fact Finding, Information Gathering, Browsing, and Transactions. We used implicit measures logged during each task session to provide usage measures such as dwell time, number of pages viewed, and the use of specific browser navigation mechanisms. We also report on differences in how participants interacted with their Web browser across the range of information-seeking tasks. Within each type of task, we found several distinguishing characteristics. In particular, Information Gathering tasks were the most complex; participants spent more time completing this task, viewed more pages, and used the Web browser functions most heavily during this task. The results of this analysis have been used to provide implications for future support of information seeking on the Web as well as direction for future research in this area. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.