Azzopardi, L. (2014) Modelling Interaction With Economic Models of Search. In: SIGIR 2014: 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval, Gold Coast, Australia, 6-11 Jun 2014, pp. 3-12. ISBN 9781450322577 (doi: 10.1145/2600428.2609574)
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Abstract
Understanding how people interact when searching is central to the study of Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR). Most of the prior work has either been conceptual, observational or empirical. While this has led to numerous insights and findings regarding the interaction between users and systems, the theory has lagged behind. In this paper, we extend the recently proposed search economic theory to make the model more realistic. We then derive eight interaction based hypotheses regarding search behaviour. To validate the model, we explore whether the search behaviour of thirty-six participants from a lab based study is consistent with the theory. Our analysis shows that observed search behaviours are in line with predicted search behaviours and that it is possible to provide credible explanations for such behaviours. This work describes a concise and compact representation of search behaviour providing a strong theoretical basis for future IIR research.
| Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Azzopardi, Dr Leif |
| Authors: | Azzopardi, L. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science |
| ISBN: | 9781450322577 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2014 ACM |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher |
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