Information Gathering Tasks on the Web: Attempting to Identify the User Search Behaviour

Conceptualising health information seeking behaviours and exploratory search: result of a qualitative study

“…We propose a clear layout of web pages with on-screen hyperlinks could help health information seekers to more easily explore relevant information. In fact, Alhenshiri et al [49] also suggest both hyperlinks and search queries need to be considered in order to improve information gathering tasks on the web.…”

To tag or not to tag? How to support organizing and classifying bookmarks from the Web (¿Con etiquetas o sin etiquetas? Cómo asistir en la organización y clasificación de los marcadores de páginas Web) (¿Con etiquetas o sin etiquetas? Cómo asistir en la organización y clasificación de los marcadores de páginas Web)

“…Saving information is not subjected to changes in search algorithms, the recall of used search keywords, the availability of information (supposing a copy is made) or changes in the state in which the information was previously found (again, supposing a copy is made). Several previous studies (e.g., Alhenshiri, 2013; Aula et al, 2005) describe strategies people use for saving information for later use, such as saving documents as a file, printing, adding bookmarks to favourites, emailing the URL or writing down the URLs. Of these strategies, the bookmarking system is the only tool that is specifically designed for the task of storing and organizing information from the Internet.…”

“…De este modo se evita el efecto de los cambios en los algoritmos de búsqueda o del olvido de los términos utilizados o de la disponibilidad de la información (si se guarda una copia de esta) o de los cambios en el estado en que se obtuvo (de nuevo, siempre que se guarde una copia). Diversos estudios previos (e.g., Alhenshiri, 2013; Aula et al, 2005) describen las estrategias que utilizamos para guardar informaciones que queremos utilizar en otro momento, entre ellas: guardar documentos en un archivo, imprimir, añadir un marcador en los favoritos, enviar el enlace en un email o escribir la dirección o URL. De todas ellas, el sistema de marcadores es la única herramienta diseñada especialmente para guardar y organizar información en Internet.…”

Chinese Developers’ Information Behaviors When Using Technical Documentation

“…Existing research on search behavior mainly placed attention to behaviors in the process of obtaining information, such as user retrieval behavior of constructing and reconstructing queries, clicking and browsing behavior in the page of search results [10,11,12]. The methods used to study user searching behavior can be divided into user study [8,9,13] and user data analysis [11,14,15,16]. In this paper, because of the lack of platform user data, we performed user study.…”