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Probing the interconnections between geo-exploration and information exploration behavior

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UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Pages 1170 - 1175

https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971694

Published: 12 September 2016 Publication History

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As increasingly diverse facets of human life - including socializing, exercising, and information-seeking - are mediated by ubiquitous technology, they open the doors for the study of the hitherto under-explored interconnections between them. This work motivates and grounds the use of geo-exploration data to predict the information exploration behavior of users and to support their search. Based on a two-week field study involving 35 participants, we have identified multiple geo-exploration features that have significant associations with a user's information exploration behavior. We also found that the same geo-exploration features could be combined to build predictive models for various facets of an individual's information exploration behavior, and these models performed significantly better than comparable personality-based models.

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