Abstract
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 14 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
| Event | 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) - Sunderland, UK Duration: 5 Apr 2004 → 7 Apr 2004 |
Conference
| Conference | 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) |
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| City | Sunderland, UK |
| Period | 5/04/04 → 7/04/04 |
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Keywords
- searching
- web searching
- search engines
- information retrieval
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Searchers' assessments of task complexity for web searching. / Bell, David J.; Ruthven, Ian.
2004. Paper presented at 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Sunderland, UK, .Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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T1 - Searchers' assessments of task complexity for web searching
AU - Bell, David J.
AU - Ruthven, Ian
N1 - Paper published in: Advances in Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the 26th European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004), Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3540213821. (This is a variant record)
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The complexity of search tasks has been shown to be an important factor in searchers' ability to find relevant information and their satisfaction with the performance of search engines. In user evaluations of search engines an understanding of how task complexity affects search behaviour is important to properly understand the results of an evaluation. In this paper we examine the issue of search task complexity for the purposes of evaluation. In particular we concentrate on the searchers' ability to recognise the internal complexity of search tasks, how complexity is affected by task design, and how complexity affects the success of searching.
AB - The complexity of search tasks has been shown to be an important factor in searchers' ability to find relevant information and their satisfaction with the performance of search engines. In user evaluations of search engines an understanding of how task complexity affects search behaviour is important to properly understand the results of an evaluation. In this paper we examine the issue of search task complexity for the purposes of evaluation. In particular we concentrate on the searchers' ability to recognise the internal complexity of search tasks, how complexity is affected by task design, and how complexity affects the success of searching.
KW - searching
KW - web searching
KW - search engines
KW - information retrieval
M3 - Paper
ER -