Why textual search interfaces fail: a study of cognitive skills needed to construct successful queries
dc.contributor.author | Berget, Gerd | |
dc.contributor.author | Sandnes, Frode Eika | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-18T09:32:09Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-21T14:05:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-18T09:32:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-21T14:05:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Berget G, Sandnes FE. Why textual search interfaces fail: a study of cognitive skills needed to construct successful queries. Information research. 2019;24(1) | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1368-1613 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1368-1613 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/6859 | |
dc.description.abstract | Introduction. It has been suggested that cognitive characteristics may affect search. This study investigated how decoding abilities, short-term memory capacity and rapid automatised naming skills relate to query formulation. Method. A total of twenty dyslexic participants and twenty non-dyslexic controls completed four standardised cognitive tests and solved ten search tasks in a Norwegian library catalogue. Analysis. The relationships between search patterns and cognitive profiles were explored using correlation analysis. Results. Results show that decoding skills relate to query lengths and spelling errors, short-term memory relates to the number of iteration cycles, and rapid automatised naming relates to query times. Conclusion. Search interfaces should be robust to errors in short queries to accommodate users with reduced cognitive function. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Borås | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Information research;Vol. 24 No. 1, March, 2019 | |
dc.relation.uri | http://www.informationr.net/ir/24-1/paper812.html | |
dc.rights | Information Research is a free electronic journal: our aim is to encourage the free exchange of the results of scholarly research, for the benefit of the various communities of interest within the information professions. To this end, copyright of papers submitted to the journal are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence. Under this licence, as the top page of the journal notes, the licensors are the authors of each respective article. The terms of the licence are: Attribution. The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. In return, licensees must give the original author credit. Noncommercial. The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. In return, licensees may not use the work for commercial purposes, unless they get the licensor's permission. No Derivative Works. The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display and perform only unaltered copies of the work — not derivative works based on it. | en |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
dc.subject | Textual searches | en |
dc.subject | Search interfaces | en |
dc.subject | Cognitive skills | en |
dc.subject | Successful queries | en |
dc.title | Why textual search interfaces fail: a study of cognitive skills needed to construct successful queries | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2019-03-18T09:32:09Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | http://informationr.net/ir/24-1/paper812.html | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1685483 | |
dc.source.journal | Information research |
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