An Empirical Study of User Navigation during Document Triage

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  • Fernando Loizides
  • George Buchanan
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Document triage is the moment in the information seeking process when the user first decides the relevance of a document to their information need[17]. This paper reports a study of user behaviour during document triage. The study reveals two main findings: first, that there is a small set of common navigational patterns; second, that certain document features strongly influence users’ navigation.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009