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An Empirical Study of User Navigation during Document Triage

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009)

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Document triage is the moment in the information seeking process when the user first decides the relevance of a document to their information need [17]. This paper reports a study of user behaviour during document triage. The study reveals two main findings: first, that there is a small set of common navigational patterns; second, that certain document features strongly influence users’ navigation.

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  1. Future Interaction Technologies Laboratory, Swansea University, Centre for HCI Design, City University, UK

    Fernando Loizides & George Buchanan

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Maristella Agosti

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering IST, Instituto Superior TĂ©cnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Borbinha

  3. Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, 72 Ioannou Theotoki str., 49100, Corfu, Greece

    Sarantos Kapidakis

  4. Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, 72 Ioannou Theotoiki str., 49100, Corfu, Greece

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Loizides, F., Buchanan, G. (2009). An Empirical Study of User Navigation during Document Triage. In: Agosti, M., Borbinha, J., Kapidakis, S., Papatheodorou, C., Tsakonas, G. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_15

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