This poster aims to understand how task type could influence when people would stop searching and what stopping rules people would use in the following three stopping behaviors: query stopping, read stopping, and task stopping during online information search. We conducted a pilot user experiment with four participants; each performed two different types of search tasks. The results show two different patterns of stopping behavior on well‐structured and decomposable tasks and poorly structured and indecomposable tasks: sequential mode, and simultaneous mode; and people use different stopping rules in three stopping behaviors.
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