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How users assess Web pages for information seeking
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In this article, we investigate the criteria used by online searchers when assessing the relevance of Web pages for information‐seeking tasks. Twenty‐four participants were given three tasks each, and they indicated the features of Web pages that they used when deciding about the usefulness of the pages in relation to the tasks. These tasks were presented within the context of a simulated work‐task situation. We investigated the relative utility of features identified by participants (Web page content, structure, and quality) and how the importance of these features is affected by the type of information‐seeking task performed and the stage of the search. The results of this study provide a set of criteria used by searchers to decide about the utility of Web pages for different types of tasks. Such criteria can have implications for the design of systems that use or recommend Web pages.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tombros, A., Ruthven, I., & Jose, J. M.
- Affiliations
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- University of Strathclyde (GB)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Tombros, Anastasios
- Ruthven, Ian
- Jose, Joemon M.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-12-15
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 327-344
- ISSN
- 1532-2882 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-2890
- OpenAlex
- W2070204737
- Cited by
- 202
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 29.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (publishedVersion)
- Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Recommender Systems and Techniques
- Keywords
- information seeking, page structure, task type, web design
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