Differences between informational and transactional tasks in information seeking on the web

IIiX'08: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 152-159

  Terai, Hitoshi ^a   Takaku, Masao ^b   Saito, Hitomi ^c   Miwa, Makiko ^d   Egusa, Yuka ^e   Kando, Noriko ^f  

^a TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MULTIMEDIA EDUCATION   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL POLICY RESEARCH   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eye movements analysis; Information seeking behavior; Task type; User studies; Web search

Indexed keywords

EYE MOVEMENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EYE-MOVEMENTS ANALYSIS; INFORMATION-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; TASK TYPE; USER STUDIES; WEB SEARCH;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 62949220166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414694.1414728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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