Multitasking web searching and implications for design
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Date
2003
Authors
Spink, Amanda S.
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Publisher
Information Today
Abstract
This paper presents findings from a study of users multitasking searches on Web search engines. A user's single session with a Web search engine may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics. Limited research has focused on multitasking search and the implications for Web design. Incidence of multitasking search by AlltheWeb.com and Excite Web search engine users were filtered from transaction logs. Findings include: (1) multitasking Web searches are a noticeable user behavior, one tenth of Excite users and one third of AlltheWeb.com users conducted multitasking searches, (2) multitasking search sessions are longer than regular search sessions in terms of queries per session and duration, (3) both Excite and AlltheWeb.corn users search for about three topics per multitasking session and submit about 4-5 queries per topic, and (4) there is a broad variety of search topics in multitasking search sessions. The implications of our findings for Web design and further research are discussed.
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Bu çalışma, Kaliforniya[ABD]'de 19-22 Ekim tarihleri arasında düzenlenen 66. Annual Meeting of the American-Society-for-Information-Science-and-Technology'de bildiri olarak sunulmuştur.
Keywords
Computer science, Information science and library science, Information-seeking
Citation
Özmutlu, S. vd. (2003). “Multitasking web searching and implications for design”. Proceedings of the Asist Annual Meeting, Asist 2003: Humanizing information technology: From ideas to bits and back, 40, 416-421.