Social Search

Brusilovsky, Peter; Smyth, Barry; Shapira, Bracha

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90092-6_7

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“…The concept of social research refers to "a group of methods that depend on adopting the behavior of previous customers, in order to provide the information that current customers are looking for, the required information is often queried in the form of a question or inquiry by retrieving some units of information" (Brusilovsky et al, 2018). Using social mechanisms to search for information on the internet is kwon as social searching on social platforms.…”

Section: Social Searchmentioning

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Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Trust in Facebook as a Social Search Engine and Its Impact on the Purchase Intentions of Restaurants’ Customers

AbouElezz

2022

International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management

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Access to the internet makes it possible to access big amounts of information online. Social search is the process of finding related data on the Internet using social media platforms such as Facebook. There is an increasing appeal to online social systems especially with the vast amounts of information are present on the internet every day. This study examines the use of Facebook as an engine for social search for restaurants' services. An online survey was developed and distributed among Facebook users to investigate their use of Facebook platform to search for restaurant services. The sample included a total of 317 participants. Data was analyzed using Smart PLS 3. The results showed that both perceived usefulness of and perceived trust in Facebook data about restaurants had a positive impact on customers' purchase intentions. The study suggests some practical recommendations for restaurant managers regarding the use of Facebook platform to positively influence purchase intentions of their customers.

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Section: Social Searchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Trust in Facebook as a Social Search Engine and Its Impact on the Purchase Intentions of Restaurants’ Customers

AbouElezz

2022

International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management

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“…Social search is the common name for a group of information retrieval approaches that leverage traces left behind by past users of information systems to help future users in the search process [23,25]. Unlike RSs, social search is intrinsically shaped by information-seeking behavior [13]. Displaying social information helps to enrich the search process, for example by augmenting results with social cues [24,49,65] or visualizing social links [20].…”

Section: Exploratory Searchmentioning

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Understanding the effects of control and transparency in searching as learning

Sciascio

Veas

Barria-Pineda

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

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In this paper, we analyze the benefits of adopting user interfaces that offer control and transparency for searching in contexts of learning activities. Concretely, we conducted a user study with pharmacy students performing a problem-solving task in the course of a university lecture. The task involved finding scientific papers containing relevant information to solve a clinical case. Students were split into two independent groups and assigned one search tool to perform the task. The baseline group worked with PubMed, a popular search engine in the life sciences domain, whereas the second half of the class was assigned an exploratory search system (ESS) designed for control and transparency. In the analysis, we cover the objective and subjective dimensions of the task outcomes. Firstly, the objective analysis addresses the inherent difficulty of the search task in a learning scenario and identifies certain improvements in performance for those students using the ESS, most notably when searching for primary-source content. The subjective analysis investigates the human factors side, providing evidence that the ESS effectively increases the perception of control and transparency and is able to produce a better user experience. Lastly, we report on perceived learning as a subjective dimension measured separately from user experience. CCS CONCEPTS • Information systems → Web searching and information discovery; Search interfaces; • Applied computing → Interactive learning environments.

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“…Similarly, a typical example of using social navigation in search context is the social annotation of search results in the ranked list with associated traffic [2] and social linking information [87]. These examples are reviewed in more detail in the Social Search chapter of this book [14]. A study presented in [13] has shown that it is more influential to provide social navigation support across multiple information-access pathways, including search, browsing, and information visualization.…”

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Social Navigation

Farzan¹,

Brusilovsky²

2018

Social Information Access

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In this chapter, we present one of the pioneering approaches in supporting users in navigating complex information spaces: social navigation support. Social navigation support is inspired by the natural tendencies of individuals to follow traces of each other in exploring the world, especially when dealing with uncertainties. In this chapter, we cover details of various approaches in implementing social navigation support in the information space, and we connect the concept to supporting theories. The first part of this chapter reviews related theories and introduces the design space of social navigation support through a series of sample applications. The second part of the chapter discusses the common challenges in design and implementation of social navigation support, demonstrates how these challenges have been addressed, and reviews the more recent direction of social navigation support. Furthermore, as social navigation support has been an inspirational approach for various other social information access approaches, we discuss how social navigation support can be integrated with those approaches. We conclude with a review of evaluation methods for social navigation support and remarks about its current state.

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Social Search

Cited by 12 publications

References 197 publications

Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Trust in Facebook as a Social Search Engine and Its Impact on the Purchase Intentions of Restaurants’ Customers

Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Trust in Facebook as a Social Search Engine and Its Impact on the Purchase Intentions of Restaurants’ Customers

Understanding the effects of control and transparency in searching as learning

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