NDLI: Determining user information goals in media-rich web sites by rethinking information scent theory

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Singh, R. Bhattarai, B.D.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Computer Science, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 (Singh, R.; Bhattarai, B.D.)
Abstract	The “information goal” underlying user activity on the web is an important latent parameter. Its determination can help in a wide variety of tasks ranging from improving the quality of a search engine's results to design and evaluation of web sites. The problem of determining user information goals is exacerbated in media-rich websites. The complexity lies in the fact that the semantics as well as the user-content interactions associated with media-rich information are context-based, emergent, and hard to capture. Furthermore, simple summary data such as traversal history or links clicked are, by themselves, insufficient to obtain insights about the information needs of a user. Doing so requires an explanatory model of user action. In this paper we propose techniques for automatically estimating user information goals from usage patterns in media-rich sites. Our research builds on ideas from information foraging theory; specifically, we propose methods to capture the influence of media-rich information and its structure on information goals and re-think the classical notion of information scent to capture the subjective perception of the value/cost/access-path of media-based informational entities. Putative information goals can subsequently be estimated from browsing patterns. Experimental investigations study the efficacy of the proposed techniques for estimating user goals and user-content interaction patterns in complex media rich sites.
Starting Page	1061
Ending Page	1066
File Size	1168100
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424474912
ISSN	1945788X
e-ISBN	9781424474936
DOI	10.1109/ICME.2010.5582595
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-07-19
Publisher Place	Singapore
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Media Navigation Entropy Semantics Web sites Correlation Pediatrics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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