What do exploratory searchers look at in a faceted search interface?

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 313-322

  Kules, Bill ^a   Capra, Robert ^b   Banta, Matthew ^a   Sierra, Tito ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Human factors; Measurement

Indexed keywords

DIRECT OBSERVATION; EMPIRICAL DATA; EXPERIMENTATION; EXPLORATORY SEARCH; EYE-TRACKING; FACETED SEARCH; GAZE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN FACTORS; LIBRARY CATALOGS; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SEARCH INTERFACES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 70450242652     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555400.1555452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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