Expertise, search behavior, and search performance of engineering users

Characterizing Expertise of Search Engine Users

Search engine click-through data is a valuable source of implicit user feedback for relevance. However, not all user clicks are good indication of relevance. The clicks from search experts, who are more successful searching a query, tend to be more reliable in indicating document relevance than those of the non-experts. Therefore, knowing the expertise of search users is helpful to better under...

Discovering Europeana Users' Search Behavior

Europeana is a strategic project funded by the European Commission with the goal of making Europe's cultural and scientific heritage accessible to the public. ASSETS is a two-­ year BLOCKIN BLOCKIN performance, accessibility and usability of the Europeana search engine. Here we present a characterization of the Europeana logs by showing statistics on common behavioral patterns of the Europeana ...

Investigating Users’ Needs and Behavior for Social Search

Traditional Web search systems have limitations due to its unrealistic assumption on users’ query formulation and lack of context-sensitivity. To overcome these limitations, we designed and implemented a social search system which is based on a social adaptive navigation system Knowledge Sea and exploits the past usage history of users. By conducting a survey and transaction log analysis, we co...

Modeling users' web search behavior and their cognitive styles

Task You recently heard about the Bermuda Triangle mystery, and you are curious and want to know more about it. So you want to search any relevant information (articles, images and videos) about it and what effect it has on the travellers in the region. Table 1: Search Tasks This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and ...

Report: A Survey on Patent Users Search Behavior, Search Functionality and System Requirements