An initial investigation on the relationship between usage and findability

Colin Wilkie; Leif Azzopardi

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_90

An initial investigation on the relationship between usage and findability

Colin Wilkie, Leif Azzopardi

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Abstract

Ensuring that information within a website is findable is particularly important. This is because visitors that cannot find what they are looking for are likely to leave the site or become very frustrated and switch to a competing site. While findability has been touted as important in web design, we wonder to what degree measures of findability are correlated to usage. To this end, we have conducted a preliminary study on three sub-domains across a number of measures of findability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Information Retrieval
Subtitle of host publication	35th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2013, Moscow, Russia, March 24-27, 2013. Proceedings
Place of Publication	Berlin, Heidelberg
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Pages	808-811
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-36972-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_90
Publication status	Published - 2013

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Volume	7814
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

Keywords

information retrieval
findability
information architecture
website optimisation

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Wilkie, C., & Azzopardi, L. (2013). An initial investigation on the relationship between usage and findability. In Advances in Information Retrieval: 35th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2013, Moscow, Russia, March 24-27, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 808-811). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 7814). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_90

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Wilkie, C & Azzopardi, L 2013, An initial investigation on the relationship between usage and findability. in Advances in Information Retrieval: 35th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2013, Moscow, Russia, March 24-27, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7814, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 808-811. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_90

An initial investigation on the relationship between usage and findability. / Wilkie, Colin; Azzopardi, Leif.
Advances in Information Retrieval: 35th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2013, Moscow, Russia, March 24-27, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2013. p. 808-811 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 7814).

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