DocumentCode :
2958621
Title :
System and user attributes associated with successful searching
Author :
Hersh, William ; Price, Susan ; Chan, Benjamin ; Kraemer, Dale ; Sacherek, Lynetta ; Olson, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Div. of Med. Inf. & Outcomes Res., Oregon Health Sci. Univ., Portland, OR, USA
fYear :
1999
fDate :
1999
Firstpage :
60
Lastpage :
70
Abstract :
A study was performed to assess system and user attributes associated with successful searching. A group of highly experienced retrieval system users were given eight queries-half to be completed with a Boolean system and the other half to be completed with a natural language system-and asked to identify “instances” of information related to a topic. A variety of demographic, experience, cognitive, personality, search mechanics, and user satisfaction attributes were measured and evaluated for association with “instance recall.” The system oriented analysis showed user preference for the Boolean system but equivalent instance recall with the two systems. The user oriented analysis showed improved performance with occupation type, user satisfaction, and number of search terms per cycle. A variety of cognitive and personality attributes did not show any association with better searching
Keywords :
human factors; information retrieval; interactive systems; online front-ends; user interfaces; Boolean system; cognitive attributes; equivalent instance recall; highly experienced retrieval system users; instance recall; natural language system; occupation type; personality attributes; search mechanics; search terms; successful searching; system oriented analysis; user attributes; user oriented analysis; user preference; user satisfaction; user satisfaction attributes; Biomedical informatics; Demography; Information retrieval; Mechanical variables measurement; Multimedia databases; Natural languages; Performance analysis; Protocols; Software libraries; Telescopes;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, 1999. Proceedings. IEEE Forum on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
ISSN :
1092-9959
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0219-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ADL.1999.777691
Filename :
777691
Link To Document :
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