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The myth of find: user behaviour and attitudes towards the basic search feature

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Fernando Loizides,

George R. BuchananAuthors Info & Claims

JCDL '08: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

Pages 48 - 51

https://doi.org/10.1145/1378889.1378898

Published: 16 June 2008 Publication History

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The ubiquitous within-document text search feature (Ctrl-F) is considered by users to be a key advantage in electronic information seeking [1]. However what people say they do and what they actually do are not always consistent. It is necessary to understand, acknowledge and identify the cause of this inconsistency. We must identify the physical and cognitive factors to develop better methods and tools, assisting with the search process. This paper discusses the limitations and myths of Ctrl-f in information seeking. A prototype system for within-document search is introduced. Three user studies portray shared behaviour and attitudes, common between participants regarding within-document searching.

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JCDL '08: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

June 2008

490 pages

ISBN:9781595939982

DOI:10.1145/1378889

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Ronald Larsen
University of Pittsburgh, USA
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Stanford University, USA
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José Borbinha
INESC-ID, Portugal
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Mor Naaman
Yahoo! Research Berkeley, USA

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Loizides FBuchanan GMavri KDobreva MSchmidt B(2015)Theory and practice in visual interfaces for semi-structured document discovery and selectionInformation Services and Use10.3233/ISU-15078335:4(259-271)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3233/ISU-150783
Wu ZLv YFuxman ALi JWang XGarofalakis MSoboroff ISuel TWang M(2014)Searching Locally-Defined EntitiesProceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management10.1145/2661829.2661954(1499-1508)Online publication date: 3-Nov-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2661829.2661954
Loizides FPhotiades TMavri AZaphiris P(2014)On Interactive Interfaces for Semi-Structured Academic Document Seeking and Relevance Decision MakingThe New Review of Information Networking10.1080/13614576.2014.95520919:2(67-95)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2014
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