Analyzing User Behavior Patterns in Adaptive Exploratory Search Systems with LifeFlow
Jae‐wook Ahn, Krist Wongsuphasawat, Peter L. Brusilovsky · D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh) · 2011
Adaptive exploratory search is a method that can provide user-centered personalized search results by incorporating interactive user interfaces. Analyzing the user behavior patterns of these systems can be complicated when they support transparent and controllable open user models. This paper suggests to use a visualization tool to address the problem, as a complement to the typical statistical analysis. By adopting an event sequence visualization tool called LifeFlow, we were able to easily find out user interesting behavior patterns, especially regarding the open user model exploration.