Search UI with Fill-in-the-Blank for Clarifying Purpose of Information Exploration and Its Evaluation
Jin Kotake and Daisuke Kitayama
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext, 4, Barcelona, Spain, 2022年6月, 査読有
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概要
The ability to retrieve needed information from the various types of information available on the Internet is becoming increasingly important. Although a query recommendation is a common search aid, we believe that users need to be able to create their own keywords when attempting to select a proper query. In this paper, we investigate how presenting a search UI when entering search keywords during a web search applying a fill-in-the-blank template (i.e., the Search UI with Fill-in-the-Blank), which reads ““I want to know [BLANK] of [BLANK],”” affects the ability to create a search query. As a result, the questionnaire evaluation and a user log analysis showed that although the Search UI with Fill-in-the-Blank is burdensome in terms of clarifying information requests of the users, it is effective for allowing the users to create specific queries.