TY - JOUR
T1 - Search in One's Hand: How Users Search a Mobile Library Catalog
AU - Zhang, Tao
AU - Niu, Xi
AU - Zhu, Liugen
AU - Chen, Hsin-Liang
PY - 2015/7/1
Y1 - 2015/7/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Library search
KW - Mobile application development
KW - Mobile search behavior
KW - Search log analysis
UR - https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/library_facwork/42
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20612-7_24
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-20612-7_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-20612-7_24
M3 - Article
VL - 9172
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
JF - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
ER -