Multimedia Web queries: implications for design

Author

Spink, Amanda ; Goodrum, Abby ; Hurson, Ali R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

36982

Firstpage

589

Lastpage

593

Abstract

The Web has enhanced the integration of textual and multimedia information. We examine changes in Web users´ multimedia searching on Excite (R), a major Web search service, over two years. Two data sets of 1025910 queries from 1997 and 1999 were analyzed. Key similarities and changes are identified. We identified changes in the multimedia terminology used and the length of multimedia queries. Our results are compared to findings from general Web searching studies. Implications for the design of multimedia systems and interfaces are discussed

Keywords

information resources; information retrieval; multimedia systems; search engines; Excite; Web search service; Web user multimedia searching; data sets; design implications; general Web searching studies; multimedia Web queries; multimedia information; multimedia queries; multimedia systems design; multimedia terminology; Art; Cameras; Digital audio players; Educational institutions; Histograms; Image retrieval; Layout; Multimedia systems; Terminology; Web search;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2001. Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1062-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2001.918860

Filename

918860