FrontPage のバックアップ(No.38) - Cognitive Research for Exploratory Search (CRES)

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About the CRES (Cognitive Research for Exploratory Search) project †

The CRES project's goal is to investigate user's behavior and cognitive processes during various information seeking tasks on the web. Various users' activities were　collected for analysis by using eye-trackers, think-aloud, etc., for the purpose of designing better interactive IR systems for exploratory searches.

This project is supported by a National Institute of Informatics joint research grant.

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Members (alphabetical order) †

Yuka Egusa: Researcher, National Institute for Educational Policy Research, Japan
Noriko Kando: Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Makiko Miwa: Professor, The Open University of Japan, Japan
Hitomi Saito: Lecturer, Aichi University of Education, Japan
Masao Takaku: Senior Engineer, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Hitoshi Terai: Assistant Professor, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

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Outcomes and Activities †

Categories of action?: We defined 10 categories of action for analyzing of user's behavior on the web.
Lookzones: We defined “Lookzones”, a set of categories indicating which part of the results page that the participants looked.
Scanpath2SVG: Visualization service for eye movement data.
Lemur Query Log Toolbar (Lemur project): We contributed to the toolbar by reporting bugs and sending patches.
EyeTrackingSystem: We used a non-contact type eye-tracking system.

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Seminars †

2009-03: Karuizawa Seminar, supported by "Information Access Technologies Supporting Exploratory and Learning" (A01-38) in MEXT grant-in-aid for Info-plosion.

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Publications †

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Peer Reviewed Publications †

[2010:international conference] Link Depth: Measuring How Far Searchers Explore Web
- Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- Hawaii; Proceedings of 43nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2010); (2010-01)(in Press)
[2009:international conference] How Task Types and User Experiences Affect Information-Seeking Behavior on the Web: Using Eye-tracking and Client-side Search Logs
- Hitomi Saito, Hitoshi Terai, Yuka Egusa, Masao Takaku, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- Boston; Proceedings of the Workshop on Understanding the User (UUIR 2009) (SIGIR 2009 Workshop); p.4; (2009-07)
- [paper] http://uiir-2009.dfki.de/
- [poster] http://cres.jpn.org/?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=uuir-handout.pdf&refer=Files
- [poster] http://cres.jpn.org/?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=uuir-poster-linkdepth.pdf&refer=Files
- [Breakout group meeting] http://cres.jpn.org/?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=2009-07-23-UUIR-Group3.pdf&refer=Files
[2008:international conference] Visualization of User Eye Movements for Search Result Pages
- Yuka Egusa, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Hitomi Saito, Noriko Kando, Makiko Miwa
- National Institute of Informatics; Tokyo; Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2008) (NTCIR-7 Pre-Meeting Workshop); pp.42-46; (2008-12)
- http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings7/pdf/EVIA2008/08-EVIA2008-EgusaY.pdf
- [Poster] http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings7/poster/08-EVIA2008-EgusaY_poster.pdf
- [Slides] http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings7/slides/08-EVIA2008-EgusaY_slides.pdf
- [Demo] Scanpath2SVG
[2008:international conference] Differences between Informational and Transactional Tasks in Information Seeking on the Web
- Hitoshi Terai, Hitomi Saito, Masao Takaku, Yuka Egusa, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Information Interaction in Context (IIiX 2008); pp.152-159 (2008-10)
- http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1414694.1414728
[2007:international conference] Comparing System Evaluation with User Experiments for Japanese Web Navigational Retrieval
- Masao Takaku, Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito, Hitoshi Terai
- Amsterdam; Proceedings of the First Workshop on Web Information-Seeking and Interaction (WISI 2007) (SIGIR 2007 Workshop); pp.49-52; (2007-07)
- http://research.microsoft.com/~ryenw/wisi/
[2007:international conference] Methodology for Capturing Exploratory Search Processes
- Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando.
- San Jose: Proceeding of the ACM SIGCHI 2007 Workshop on Exploratory Search and HCI : Designing and Evaluating Interfaces to Support Exploratory Search Interaction (ESI2007); pp.76-80; (2007-04)
- http://research.microsoft.com/~ryenw/esi
[2007:paper] Naïve Ontology for Concepts of Time and Space for Searching and Learning
- Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- Information Research, vol. 23, no. 2, January 2007 (2007-01)
- http://informationr.net/ir/12-2/paper296.html
[2006:international conference] Role of Naïve Ontology in Search and Learn Processes for Domain Novices
- Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- in S. Sugimoto; J Hunter; A Rauber; and A. Morishima (Eds.) Digital Libraries: Achievements , Challenges and Opportunities
- 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006 Kyoto, Japan, November 2006, Proceedings. pp. 380-389 (2006-10)
[2006:international conference] Naïve Ontology for Concepts of Time and Space for Searching and Learning
- Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- Presented at the Information Seeking in Context Conference 2006 (ISIC 2006), Sydney, UTS (2006-07)

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Other Publications †

[2009:international conference] What Can Eye-Trackers Visualize?--An Approach to Capture the Reality of Search Processes
- Makiko Miwa, Sanda Erdelez, Haakon Lund, and Jacek Gwizdka
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting; (2009-11) (in Press)
- [panel] http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM09/panels/24.html

[2009:domestic conference] Link Depth: Analysis of Browsing Behavior on the Web
- Yuka Egusa, Masao Takaku, Hitomi Saito, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- Kobe; IPSJ SIG Technical Report Vol20090-FI-95, No.20; p.7; (2009-07) (in Japanese)
- http://www.nier.go.jp/yuka/works/FI95-2009/
[2009:domestic conference] Analisys of Web Interaction Focused on the Cognitive Process of User
- Hitomi Saito, Yuka Egusa, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- Conference of Web Intelligence and Interaction; Hiroshima(2009-07) (in Japanese)

[2009:domestic conference] Analysis of User Eye Movements during Viewing of Search Engine Results Pages inWeb Information Seeking Tasks
- Masao Takaku, Yuka Egusa, Hitoshi Terai, Hitomi Saito, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- 2009 Annual Conference of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge; Tokyo; Journal of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge; vol.19, no.2, pp.224-235. (2009-05) (in Japanese)
- DOI 10.2964/jsik.19-224
[2008:domestic conference] A Study of Information-Seeking on the Web: Preliminary Analysis on Influence of Task Types and User Experiences
- Hitomi Saito, Yuka Egusa, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- Conference of Web Intelligence and Interaction; Yokohama, pp. 37-42 (2008-12) (in Japanese)
- http://cres.jpn.org/?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=wi2_hsaito-print.pdf&refer=Files
[2008:misc] Towards a New Stage of Web Information Retrieval and Seeking
- Masao Takaku
- Journal of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge; vol.18; no.5; pp.468-471; (2008-12)(in Japanese)
- http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsik/18/5/468/_pdf/-char/ja/
- http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110007028697/en/
[2008:misc] An Introduction to CRES Project
- Yuka Egusa
- Journal of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge; vol.18; no.5; pp.466-467; (2008-12)(in Japanese)
- http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsik/18/5/466/_pdf/-char/ja/
- http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110007028698/en/
[2008:domestic conference] Preliminary Analysis of Differences between Informational Task and Transactional Task in Information Seeking on the Web
- Hitomi Saito, Hitoshi Terai, Masao Takaku, Yuka Egusa, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- 2008 Annual Conference of Japan Cognitive Science Society; Kyoto pp. 234-235 (2008-09) (in Japanese)
[2008:domestic conference] Preliminary analyses of eye movement data in Web information seeking
- Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- 2008 Annual Conference of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge; Tokyo, Journal of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge; vol.18; no.2; pp.181-188; (2008-05) (in Japanese)
- DOI 10.2964/jsik.18-181
- http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110006782185/en/
[2007:domestic conference] Comparing System Performance Evaluation with User Experiments for Web Navigational Retrieval
- Hitomi Saito, Hitoshi Terai, Masao Takaku, Yuka Egusa
- 2007 Annual Conference of Japan Cognitive Science Society; Tokyo, pp.544-545; (2007-09)(in Japanese)
[2007:international conference] An Application of the NTCIR-WEB Raw-data Archive Dataset for User Experiments
- Masao Takaku, Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito, Hitoshi Terai
- National Institute of Informatics; Tokyo; Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2007) (NTCIR-6 Pre-Meeting Workshop); pp.78-81; (2007-05)
- http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/EVIA/14.pdf
- [Poster] http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/EVIA/14-poster.pdf
[2006:domestic conference] Naïve Ontology: Construction of Time and Space Knowledge through Exploratory Searching on the Web.
- Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- 2006 Annual Conference of the Mita Society of Library and Information Science, Tokyo, Japan, November 2006, 11, Proceedings. pp. 33-36. (in Japanese)

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