Examination of online information search stopping behaviors and stopping rules by task type
Dedema, Chang Liu · Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2019
ABSTRACT This poster aims to understand how task type could influence when people would stop searching and what stopping rules people would use in the following three stopping behaviors: query stopping, read stopping, and task stopping during online information search. We conducted a pilot user experiment with four participants; each performed two different types of search tasks. The results show two different patterns of stopping behavior on well‐structured and decomposable tasks and poorly structured and indecomposable tasks: sequential mode, and simultaneous mode; and people use different stopping rules in three stopping behaviors.