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Successive Searching: User Searches during Information Seeking (SIG USE).
Spink, Amanda – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 2000
Presents a session abstract that included speakers discussing current studies in successive searching during the information seeking process. Highlights include mediated successive searching; end-user successive searching; designing information retrieval systems to support successive searching; and search histories for user support in legal…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Search Intermediaries
Use of Query Reformulation and Relevance Feedback by Excite Users.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Spink, Amanda; Jansen, Bernard J.; Ozmultu, H. Cenk – Internet Research, 2000
Examines the use of query reformulation and particularly the use of relevance feedback by users of the Excite Web search engine. Discusses results that show limited use of query reformulation and relevance feedback; identifies the most common pattern of searching; and discusses implications for Web search system design. (Contains 16 references.)…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Feedback, Information Retrieval, Man Machine Systems
Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments. A National Science Foundation/British Library Funded Study.
Spink, Amanda; Wilson, Tom; Ellis, David; Ford, Nigel – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
This study investigates the nature, manifestations, and behavior of successive searching by users in digital environments, and establishes criteria for use in the design of information-retrieval interfaces and systems supporting successive-searching behavior. Study includes two projects--one based at the University of North Texas, one at the…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Term Relevance Feedback and Mediated Database Searching: Implications for Information Retrieval Practice and Systems Design.
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Spink, Amanda – Information Processing & Management, 1995
This study uses the human approach to examine the sources and effectiveness of search terms selected during 40 mediated interactive database searches and focuses on determining the retrieval effectiveness of search terms identified by users and intermediaries from retrieved items during term relevance feedback. (Author/JKP)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Information Retrieval, Online Searching
Examining Different Regions of Relevance: From Highly Relevant to Not Relevant.
Spink, Amanda; Greisdorf, Howard; Bateman, Judy – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Proposes a useful concept of relevance as a relationship and an effect on the movement of a user through the iterative stages of their information seeking process, and that users' relevance judgments can be plotted on a Three-Dimensional Spatial Model of Relevance Level, Degree and Time. Discusses implications for the development of information…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Information Systems
Multitasking Information Seeking and Searching Processes.
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Spink, Amanda; Ozmutlu, H. Cenk; Ozmutlu, Seda – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Presents findings from four studies of the prevalence of multitasking information seeking and searching by Web (via the Excite search engine), information retrieval system (mediated online database searching), and academic library users. Highlights include human information coordinating behavior (HICB); and implications for models of information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer System Design, Databases, Higher Education
Multiple Search Sessions by End-Users of Online Catalogs and CD-ROM Databases.
Spink, Amanda; Beatty, Leslie – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Results are reported from a study that investigated the extent to which academic library end users conducted multiple search sessions with online public access catalogs or CD-ROM databases at different stages of their information seeking related to a research project. Implications for training, retrieval systems design, and further research are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer System Design, Databases, Higher Education