Typologie des comportements utilisateurs : {\'e}tude exploratoire des sessions de recherche complexe sur le Web

TL;DR

This paper develops a typology of user behaviors during complex web search sessions by analyzing experimental data from 70 users, revealing five distinct behavior classes based on search variables and topic content.

Contribution

It introduces a new typology of user behaviors in complex web searches, combining IR variables and semantic topic analysis, based on empirical data.

Findings

Identified five user behavior classes during complex search sessions.

Demonstrated variations in search behavior across users for the same task.

Provided a multidimensional analysis framework for user behavior typology.

Abstract

In this study, we propose an exploratory approach aiming at a typology of user behaviour during a Web search session. We describe a typology based on generic IR variables (e.g. number of queries), but also on the study of topic (propositions with distinct semantic content defined from the search statement). To this end, we gathered experimental data enabling us to study variations across users (N=70) for the same task. We performed a multidimensional analysis and propose a 5 classes typology based on the individual behaviours during the processing of a complex search task.