Article
Search in One's Hand: How Users Search a Mobile Library Catalog
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Abstract
With the rapid growth of mobile devices, mobile websites become an important channel of library resources and services. The mobile catalog is often significantly different from its desktop version in interface and features, but few studies of library catalog search behavior have been focused on mobile catalog searches. We present a study on user search behavior with a mobile library catalog based on transaction log analysis. We compared mobile and desktop catalog search behaviors and highlighted the similarities and differences, which could provide important evidence for improving mobile library catalogs' search performance and usability.
Meeting Name
17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International (2015: Aug. 2-7, Los Angeles, CA)
Department(s)
Library and Learning Resources
Keywords and Phrases
- Library search,
- Mobile application development,
- Mobile search behavior,
- Search log analysis
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-331920611-0
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2015 Springer Verlag, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
7-1-2015
Disciplines
Citation Information
Tao Zhang, Xi Niu, Liugen Zhu and Hsin-Liang Chen. "Search in One's Hand: How Users Search a Mobile Library Catalog" Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 9172 (2015) p. 247 - 257 ISSN: 0302-9743 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hsin-liang-oliver-chen/31/