How Query Cost Affects Search Behavior

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作者
Azzopardi, Leif [1 ]
Kelly, Diane [2 ]
Brennan, Kathy [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Glasgow, Sch Comp Sci, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
[2] Univ N Carolina, Sch Informat & Lib Sci, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USA
来源
SIGIR'13: THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 36TH INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL | 2013年
关键词
Search Behavior; Economic Models; Production Theory; Interactive Information Retrieval; Query Interfaces; Query Cost; INFORMATION; WEB; MODEL; TIME; DELAYS;
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摘要
We investigate how the cost associated with querying in the context of information retrieval affects how users interact with a search system. Microeconomic theory is used to generate the cost-interaction hypothesis that states as the cost of querying increases, users will pose fewer queries and examine more documents per query. A between-subjects laboratory study with 36 undergraduate subjects was conducted, where subjects were randomly assigned to use one of three search interfaces that varied according to the amount of physical cost required to query: Structured (high cost), Standard (medium cost) and Query Suggestion (low cost). Results show that subjects who used the Structured interface submitted significantly fewer queries, spent more time on search results pages, examined significantly more documents per query, and went to greater depths in the search results list. Results also showed that these subjects spent longer generating their initial queries, saved more relevant documents and rated their queries as more successful. These findings have implications for the usefulness of microeconomic theory as a way to model and explain search interaction, as well as for the design of query facilities.
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