Fu-Finder: a game for studying querying behaviours

Carly O'Neil; James Purvis; Leif Azzopardi

doi:10.1145/2063576.2064019

Fu-Finder: a game for studying querying behaviours

Carly O'Neil, James Purvis, Leif Azzopardi

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Abstract

Usually the focus of evaluation within Information Retrieval has been placed largely upon the system. However, the individual user and their submitted queries are typically the greatest source of variation in the search process. This demonstration paper presents Fu-Finder, a fun and enjoyable game that measures the user's querying abilities (or search-fu). This game provides useful data for the study of user querying behaviour and assesses how well users can find specific web pages using different search engines.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CIKM '11 Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Pages	2561-2564
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2063576.2064019
Publication status	Published - 24 Oct 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Search-Fu
querying behaviour
findability

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