Open AccessA Goal‐based Classification of Web Information Tasks
Author(s) -
Kellar Melanie,
Watters Carolyn,
Shepherd Michael
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.14504301121
Subject(s) - categorization , computer science , task (project management) , world wide web , field (mathematics) , web application , information retrieval , human–computer interaction , artificial intelligence , engineering , mathematics , systems engineering , pure mathematics
While researchers have been studying user activity on the Web since its inception, there remains a lack of understanding of the high level tasks in which users engage on the Web. We have recently conducted a field study in which participants were asked to annotate all web usage with a task description and categorization. Based on our analysis of participants' recorded tasks during the field study, as well as previous research, we have developed a goal‐based classification of information tasks which describes user activities on the Web.