Why do users neglect suggestions?: Effects of semantic relatedness and task on word recognition

Smith, Catherine L.; Wacholder, Nina

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/15044 Copy

Description

Title

Why do users neglect suggestions?: Effects of semantic relatedness and task on word recognition

Author(s)

• Smith, Catherine L.
• Wacholder, Nina

Issue Date

2010-02-03

Keyword(s)

• interactive search
• query
• semantic priming

Abstract

We report work in progress on the question “Why do searchers frequently fail to use potentially valuable query suggestions?” [1,2]. We hypothesize that failure is due, at least in part, to interference with the searcher’s ability to recognize a semantic relationship between the words used in a query and the words in a suggestion. In our study, we measure semantic priming as an indicator of a searcher’s recognition of relationships between words. This poster presents preliminary results from one experiment in the study.

Type of Resource

text

Permalink

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15044

Owning Collections