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ECIR 2003: Advances in Information Retrieval pp 104–119Cite as

User Behaviour in the Context of Structured Documents

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This paper describes a small-scale experimental study examining user behaviour in the context of structured documents. Two variants of the same interface to support information seeking were implemented, one highlighting relevant objects and one highlighting best entry points (BEPs). BEPs are intended to support users’ natural information seeking behaviour by providing optimal starting points for browsing to relevant objects. Analysis of the results from the comparative study of these two interfaces shows that the BEP interface was strongly preferred to the relevant object interface, and that appropriate usage of BEPs can lead to improved task performance. However, the study also highlighted shortcomings related to the inconsistent nature of BEPs and to BEP interface design.

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  1. Open and Distance Learning Unit / Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS

    Karen Finesilver & Jane Reid

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Finesilver, K., Reid, J. (2003). User Behaviour in the Context of Structured Documents. In: Sebastiani, F. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2633. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36618-0_8

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