A Study of Users' Image Seeking Behaviour in FlickLing

This study aims to explore users' image seeking behaviour when searching for a known, non-annotated image in Flickling provided by iCLEF2008 track. The task assigned to users was to search for the three first images given after first login. Users did not know in advance in which of the six languages (English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian) the images were described, forcing them to search across languages. The main focus of our study was threefold: a) to identify the reasons that determined users' choice over a specific interface, b) to examine whether users were thinking about languages when searching for images and to what extent and c) to examine if used, how helpful the translations proved to be for finding the images. This study used four different, both quantitative and qualitative methods (questionnaires, retrospective thinking aloud, observation and interviews) to meet its research questions. Results show that two out of ten users were using only the monoli...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Evgenia Vassilakaki, Frances C. Johnson, Richard J. Hartley, David Randall
• Keywords: CLEF 2008, Image, Image Seeking Behaviour, Information Management, Users Paid Attention