An exploratory study into perceived task complexity, topic specificity, and usefulness for integrated search
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We investigate the relations between user perceptions of work task complexity, specificity, and usefulness of retrieved results. 23 academic researchers submitted detailed descriptions of 65 real-life work tasks in the physics domain, and assessed documents retrieved from an integrated collection consisting of full text research articles in PDF, abstracts, and bibliographic records [6]. Bibliographic records were found to be more precise than full text PDFs, regardless of task complexity and specificity. PDFs were found to be more useful. Overall, higher task complexity led to many highly useful results, and high task specificity led to many useful documents.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium |
Number of pages | 4 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Publication date | 2012 |
Pages | 302-305 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4503-1282-0 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Event | 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium - Nijmegen, Netherlands Duration: 21 Aug 2012 → 24 Aug 2012 Conference number: 4 |
Conference
Conference | 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium |
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Nummer | 4 |
Land | Netherlands |
By | Nijmegen |
Periode | 21/08/2012 → 24/08/2012 |
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