User Behaviour during Web Search as Part of Information Gathering

Improving How Users Organize Web Information for Gathering Tasks

“…The last engagement factor the study tested was the presentation of Web search results to the user. As shown by Alhenshiri et al (2011), Web information gathering tasks are largely search based. Hence, it was necessary to evaluate the presentation of Web search results on VIMS with the use of visualization and clustering.…”

“…The current state of Web information gathering necessitates studying challenges users encounter during this type of task. VIMS was designed based on three previous studies (Alhenshiri et al, 2010a;Alhenshiri et al, 2010b;Alhenshiri et al, 2011). Our previous studies revealed several questions regarding which visualization, clustering, re-finding, and organizing factors would improve the process of Web information gathering.…”

“…Four models were employed in the design and implementation of VIMS: searching, clustering, organizing, and re-finding models. It has been shown that Web information gathering tasks are largely search based (Alhenshiri et al, 2011). VIMS combines the powers of the Google and Yahoo Web search engines.…”

The effect of user search behaviour on web information gathering tasks

“…Alhenshiri et al (2010) presented a model in which the task of web information gathering was divided into subtasks involving activities of similar nature which users perform on the web during the task. The process of information gathering on the web has been shown to heavily rely on search and organization of information for the task (Alhenshiri et al, 2011). The search part of the process includes activities users perform to locate pieces of information required in the task which may involve locating information from different sources, locating related information to the already located pieces, and re-finding information in multi-session tasks (Alhenshiri et al, 2010).…”