Russell-Rose, Tony; Clough, Paul and Toms, Elaine G.. 2014. 'Categorising Search Sessions: Some Insights from Human Judgments'. In: IIiX 2014: 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium. Reghensburg, Germany 26-30 August 2014. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Abstract or Description

The session is a common unit of interaction that is used in search
log analysis. By analysing sessions, it is possible to identify
distinct classes of searcher behaviour that can be used to design
search applications that better support groups of users based on
their expected behaviours. This paper describes an online card
sort experiment to investigate how people distinguish between
search sessions (i.e., how they group them) to gain insights into
their organising principles and to inform the future use of
automated approaches, such as clustering. Results show patterns
of user behaviour to be the most common way of grouping
sessions.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637035
Keywords:	Performance, Design, Experimentation, Human Factors
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Computing
Dates:	Date Event 26 August 2014 Accepted 26 August 2014 Published
Event Location:	Reghensburg, Germany
Date range:	26-30 August 2014
Item ID:	27117
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2019 16:04
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2021 22:53
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27117

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