Faceted Search for Library Catalogs: Developing Grounded Tasks and Analyzing Eye-Tracking Data
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In this paper, we describe two aspects of a study we conducted of faceted search in an online public access library catalog (OPAC). First, we describe how we used log data from a university OPAC to develop a set of grounded tasks. Then, we describe our use of eye-tracking in a controlled laboratory setting to examine user behaviors performing the grounded tasks. We discuss the challenges we encountered both in using the log data to develop tasks and in collecting and analyzing the eye-tracking data.
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