Experiment on Action Characteristics of Web Information Retrieval Based on User Types and Browsing Time

Abstract

　The researches that analyze the search histories of Web pages associated with the users' actions become popular to grasp the purpose of the search or to clarify the characteristics of the behavior.Although some works thought of the time of searching and browsing, those did not take into consideration the users' experiences, the knowledge or the page qualities. The goal of our research is to obtain the process of personal Web searching, focusing on relations between the users'characteristics or the page qualities and the times of information retrieval. This paper presents the overview and the results of the experiments.