User behavior in location search on mobile devices

Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • A. Hanbury
  • G. Kazai
  • A. Rauber
  • N. Fuhr
Book title Advances in Information Retrieval
Book subtitle 37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015, Vienna, Austria, March 29-April 2, 2015 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783319163536
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783319163543
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event ECIR 2015: 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval
Pages (from-to) 728-733
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract
Location search engines are an important part of GPS-enabled devices such as mobile phones and tablet computers. In this paper, we study how users behave when they interact with a location search engine by analyzing logs from a popular GPS-navigation service to find out whether mobile users’ location search characteristics differ from those of regular web search. In particular, we analyze query- and session-based characteristics and the temporal distribution of location searches performed on smart phones and tablet computers. Our findings may be used to improve the design of search interfaces in order to help users perform location search more effectively and improve the overall experience on GPS-enabled mobile devices.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16354-3_79
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