Browsing as a means of online text retrieval*

Cove, J. F.; Walsh, Benjamin

doi:10.3233/isu-1987-7602

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“…In library science studies, browsing is described as different types of “looking” activities for which initial search criteria are only partly defined (Cove and Walsh, 1987). It can simply mean glances in a casual way (Bankapur, 1988).…”

Section: A Brief Overview Of Browsing Behaviorsmentioning

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An examination of consumer browsing behaviors

Xia

2010

Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal

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PurposeBrowsing is a common consumer behavior, but it has not been researched extensively. The aim of this paper is to fill some of the gaps in the research.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on literature from different areas, consumers' browsing experiences, browsing patterns, and factors influencing browsing activities are empirically examined. A combination of interviews and shopping trips with informants to examine the issues are used.FindingsThe results show that browsing serves both functional and recreational purposes. Consumers vary by the degree to which they browse functionally or recreationally. Browsing behaviors are influenced by both consumer characteristics and the retail environment. Browsing is a powerful consumer information acquisition activity and has both desired and undesired consequences for consumer purchases. Consumers use various strategies to cope with the undesired consequences.Practical implicationsExploration of browsing patterns and factors influencing these patterns suggests important managerial implications for enhancing desirable browsing and reducing unnecessary browsing.Originality/valueThe conceptualization and findings of this research contribute to two areas of research: consumer information search and consumer shopping behaviors in retail environments. An examination of the role of browsing offers an empirical extension to the information acquisition framework.

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Section: A Brief Overview Of Browsing Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An examination of consumer browsing behaviors

Xia

2010

Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal

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“…Distinguishing the diverse types of browsing is another way that people define it. One of the most popular typologies was based on the information goal and the tactics to achieve it (Apted & Choo, 1971; Cove & Walsh, 1987, 1988; Herner, 1970), including very casually browsing without any goal, browsing less systematically with a vague goal, or very purposive browsing with a clear goal. Rice et al (2001) also proposed a general model of browsing, which presented a rich typology of browsing using multiple dimensions, including task context, internal and external influences, the processes used, and the consequences that follow from browsing.…”

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“…While browsing is found in the major information seeking studies, each has a slightly different take on it. There are three different ways that people usually use to define browsing: a component of the overall information seeking process (Bates, 1989; Ellis, 1989; Ellis & Haugan, 1997), an independent information seeking strategy (Bates, 2007; Marchionini, 1997), and the diverse typologies of browsing (Apted & Choo, 1971; Cove & Walsh, 1987, 1988; Herner, 1970; Rice et al, 2001).…”

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It's Still Rock and Roll to Me: A Model of Online Browsing Behaviour

Zhang

Buchanan

Kelly

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Browsing has long been acknowledged as a critical information seeking strategy. Previous research on information browsing—browsing for books, videos or other items for which decisions have to be made based on an information surrogate—has focused on browsing in a physical context, and much of it predates technology found online today. We lack empirical data from the contemporary digital context to describe how people browse online. This study adopted scenario‐based interviews and observations to investigate people's online information browsing behaviour. Based on a qualitative analysis of the data, we proposed an online browsing journey model formed by four iterative activities: Choose the Browsing Collection, Select Candidates from the Browsing Collection, Inspect the Selected Candidates, Generate and Edit the Candidate list. This model offers novel insight into how people browse in the existing online context, which also forms the basis for further online browsing research.

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“…This latter categorization was first made in one of the earliest reviews of browsing in the literature (Herner, 1970) and was revised by Vickery (1977) as purposive, semipurposive and capricious. A somewhat similar categorization of browsing as systematic, exploratory and casual has been made by Marchionini (1995) and as search/directed, general purpose and serendipitous/random (Cove and Walsh, 1987;Catledge and Pitkow, 1995). A number of rather similar categorizations, generally three-way, have been proposed (Bawden, 1993a).…”

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Encountering on the road to Serendip? Browsing in new information environments

Bawden¹

Innovations in Information Retrieval

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This is a book about research fronts in information retrieval and information organizations. As teachers of information retrieval and researchers in the field, we felt that a book specifically intended to inform and inspire Master's-level students who might be looking to develop their dissertation topics, or indeed to develop PhD proposals, would be useful and interesting We thought that this should be an edited and peer-reviewed book in which academics in information retrieval would be invited to write about the issues and topics that they think are of current interest and that they find engaging. This book, then, is intended to complement the information retrieval textbooks that are already in the market. The focus of this book is to introduce students to the broader information retrieval debates, theories and issues. To this end, contributors have been encouraged to highlight the 'hot' research ideas in their specialist area. For many years the theory and practice of knowledge organization remained the preserve of information scientists and library professionals. The ubiquity and accessibility of the internet has changed this: no longer the sole concern of the library and information science (LIS) community, knowledge organization has caught the interest of computer scientists, semantic web developers and knowledge managers working in a wide range of organizations involved in the creation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information, in particular, digital information. While traditional subject-oriented knowledge organization tools have been created and developed from within scholarly domains, so that the underlying concern has been to map 'knowledge' for academic purposes (e.g. DDC, LC, A&AT, Iconclass), contemporary subject-oriented knowledge organization tools are often driven by commercial, process and product-driven purposes. The advent of new information retrieval technologies and approaches to storage and retrieval provides communities with previously unheard-of opportunities for mass documentation, digitization and the recording of cultural XV

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Browsing as a means of online text retrieval*

Cited by 8 publications

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An examination of consumer browsing behaviors

An examination of consumer browsing behaviors

It's Still Rock and Roll to Me: A Model of Online Browsing Behaviour

Encountering on the road to Serendip? Browsing in new information environments

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