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A comparative study of the effect of search feature design on user experience in digital libraries (DLs)

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Yuelin Li,

Xiangmin Zhang,

Ying Zhang,

Jingjing LiuAuthors Info & Claims

SIGIR '06: Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

Pages 669 - 670

https://doi.org/10.1145/1148170.1148309

Published: 06 August 2006 Publication History

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This study investigates the impact of different search feature designs in DLs on user search experience. The results indicate that the impact is significant in terms of the number of queries issued, search steps, zero-hits pages returned, and search errors.

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A comparative study of the effect of search feature design on user experience in digital libraries (DLs)
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Digital libraries and archives
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Digital libraries and archives

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SIGIR '06: Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

August 2006

768 pages

ISBN:1595933697

DOI:10.1145/1148170

General Chair:
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
University of Washington
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Susan Dumais
Microsoft Research, Redmond
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David Hawking
CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, Australia
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Kalervo Järvelin,
University of Tampere, Finland

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