Expeditions through image jungles

Göker, Ayşe; Butterworth, Richard; MacFarlane, Andrew; Ahmed, T.; Stumpf, Simone

doi:10.1108/jd-01-2014-0019

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“…Images depict objects and for Subjective and Abstract tasks, the response that users perceived from viewing the object is more important than the object itself [2,49]. A possible explanation is that in Subjective and Abstract tasks, relevance of an image is complex or unclear, therefore requiring additional criteria to make judgements [13].…”

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Effects of relevance criteria and subjective factors on web image searching behaviour

Hamid

Thom

Iskandar

2016

Journal of Information Science

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Searching for images is an everyday activity. Nevertheless, even a highly skilled searcher often struggles to find what they are looking for. This article studies the factors that affect users’ online web image search behaviour, investigating (1) the use of criteria in making image relevance judgements and (2) the effect of familiarity, difficulty and satisfaction. The study includes 48 users who performed four online image search tasks using Google Images. Simulated work scenarios, questionnaires and screen capture recordings were used to collect data of their image search behaviour. The results show in judging image relevance, users may apply similar criterion, however, the importance of these criteria depends on the type of image search. Similarly, ratings of users’ perception on subjective aspects of performing image search shows they were task dependent. Users’ perception on subjective aspects of performing image search did not always correspond with their actual search behaviour. Correlation analysis shows that subjective factors cannot be definitively measured by using only one component of search behaviour. Future work includes further analysis on the effects of topic familiarity and satisfaction.

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Effects of relevance criteria and subjective factors on web image searching behaviour

Hamid

Thom

Iskandar

2016

Journal of Information Science

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Motivations and intentions of flickr users in enriching flick records for library of congress photos

Kipp

Beak

Choi

2017

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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The purpose of this study is to understand users' motivations and intentions in the use of institutional collections on social tagging sites. Previous social tagging studies have collected social tagging data and analyzed how tagging functions as a tool to organize and retrieve information. Many studies focused on the patterns of tagging rather than the users' perspectives. To provide a more comprehensive picture of users' social tagging activities in institutional collections, and how this compares to social tagging in a more personal context, we collected data from social tagging users by surveying 7,563 participants in the Library of Congress's Flickr Collection. We asked users to describe their motivations for activities within the LC Flickr Collection in their own words using open‐ended questions. As a result, we identified 11 motivations using a bottom‐up, open‐coding approach: affective reactions, opinion on photo, interest in subject, contribution to description, knowledge sharing, improving findability, social network, appreciation, personal use, and personal relationship. Our study revealed that affective or emotional reactions play a critical role in the use of social tagging of institutional collections by comparing our findings to existing frameworks for tagging motivations. We also examined the relationships between participants' occupations and our 11 motivations.

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Image searching in an open photograph archive: search tactics and faced barriers in historical research

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Ruotsalainen,

Kumpulainen

2024

Int J Digit Libr

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During the last decades, cultural heritage collections have been digitized, for example, for the use of academic scholars. However, earlier studies have mainly focused on the use of textual materials. Thus, little is known about how digitized photographs are used and searched in digital humanities. The aim of this paper is to investigate the applied search tactics and perceived barriers when looking for historical photographs from a digital image archive for research and writing tasks. The case archive of this study contains approximately 160,000 historical wartime photographs that are openly available. The study is based on a qualitative interview and demonstration data of 15 expert users of the image collection searching photographs for research and writing tasks. Critical incident questions yielded a total of 37 detailed real-life search examples and 158 expressed barriers to searching. Results show that expert users apply and combine different tactics (keywords, filtering and browsing) for image searching, and rarely using one tactic only is enough. During searching users face various barriers, most of them focusing on keyword searching due to the shortcomings of image metadata. Barriers were mostly in the context of the collection and tools. Although scholars have benefited from the efforts put into digitizing cultural heritage collections, providing digitized content openly online is not enough if there are no sufficient means for accessing the content. Automatic annotation methods are one option for creating metadata to improve the findability of the images. However, a better understanding of human information interaction with image data is needed to better support digitalization in the humanities in this respect.

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Expeditions through image jungles

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Effects of relevance criteria and subjective factors on web image searching behaviour

Effects of relevance criteria and subjective factors on web image searching behaviour

Motivations and intentions of flickr users in enriching flick records for library of congress photos

Image searching in an open photograph archive: search tactics and faced barriers in historical research

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