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 has been supported by MEXT Grants in Aid and National Institute of Informatics joint research grants .
Members (alphabetical order) †
- Yuka Egusa
- Senior 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
- Associate Professor, Aichi University of Education, Japan
- Masao Takaku
- Senior Engineer, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
- Hitoshi Terai
- Associate Professor, Nagoya University, Japan
Outcomes and Activities †
- CRES Leaflet:
20101116-cres-leaflet-en.pdf (480KB) - Introduction and overview of CRES project
- Web action categories: We defined 10 Web action categories for analyzing of user's behavior on the web.
- Link Depth: We defined “Link Depth” as an index for indicating the extent to which a user has moved deeper into the Web following links from search engine result pages (SERP).
- Lookzones: We defined “Lookzones”, a set of categories indicating which part of the results page that the participants looked.
- Taxonomy for Knowledge Change : a set of categories describing how a user's knowledge was changed during a search session.
- Taxonomy for Knowledge Utilization: a set of categories describing how users utilize their knowledge during a search session.
- Scanpath2SVG: Visualization service for eye movement data.
- VizCMap: Visualization and analysis tool for pre- and post-search concept maps.
- QT-Honey: a Firefox add-on toolbar for collecting web user behaviors, along with Web action categories.
- Lemur Query Log Toolbar (Lemur project): QT-Honey simultaneously collects the data compatible with the Lemur Query Log Toolbar, which was developed by CMU/LTI.
- EyeTrackingSystem: We used a non-contact type eye-tracking systems.
Seminars †
- 2009-03
- Karuizawa Seminar, supported by "Information Access Technologies Supporting Exploratory and Learning" (A01-38) in MEXT grant-in-aid for Info-plosion.
Publications †
Peer Reviewed Publications †
- [2012:International conference] Using Concept Map to Evaluate Learning by Searching
- Hitomi Saito, Yuka Egusa, Masao Takaku, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2012) Aug 2012 (2012-08)
- [2011:International conference] Evaluation of Interactive Information Access System using Concept Map
- Masaharu Yoshioka, Noriko Kando, Yohei Seki
- In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA2011) 20-23 Dec 2011 (2011-12)
- [2011:International conference] Changes in Users’ Knowledge Structures Before and After Web Search on a Topic: Analysis Using the Concept Map
- Hitomi Saito, Ryo Nakashima, Yuka Egusa, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa and Noriko Kando
- 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Poster) (2011-10)
- [2011:paper] A method to capture information encountering embedded in exploratory Web searches
- [2010:paper] Influence of Task Type and User Group on Web-based Information Seeking Behavior: Analysis of Eye Movement Data and Client-side Browsing Logs
- [2010:international conference] Using a Concept Map to Evaluate Exploratory Search
- Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando
- Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Information Interaction in Context (IIiX 2010); p.175-184 (2010-08)
- [Demo] VizCMap
- [Slides] 2010-08-20-iix2010.pdf
- [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 the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2010); p.1-8 (2010-01)
- doi:10.1109/HICSS.2010.257
- [2009:international conference] How Task Types and User Experiences Affect Information-Seeking Behavior on the Web: Using Eye-tracking and Client-side Search Logs
- [2008:international conference] Visualization of User Eye Movements for Search Result Pages
- [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)
- doi: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
- [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)
Invited Talks and Panels †
- [2012:domestic conference] How People Search Information ?: Understanding Information Seeking Process and Supporting Users
- Noriko Kando
- 2012 Syposium on Defense Technologies : Ministry of Defense, Technical Research and Development Institute; (2012-11)
- [2012:international conference] Capturing and Evaluating Exploratory Search Processes on the Web [Keynotes]
- Makiko Miwa
- The 2012 International Conference on Information Seeking in Context (ISIC2012), Keio University; Tokyo (2012-09)
- [2011:domestic conference] Investigating Exploratory Search
- [2011:domestic conference] 2011 Best Paper Award of the Year 2011 of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge: "Influence of Task Type and User Group on Web-based Information Seeking Behavior: Analysis of Eye Movement Data and Client-side Browsing Logs"
- [2010: domestic symposium] Study on Users' Exploratory Search Behavior Through Search Log Analysis and Cognitive Research
- Noriko Kando
- MEXT Grant-in-Aids Joint Symposium on "Language Processing Technologies: Deepening and Taking a New Turn of the Theories and Applications" (2010-09) (in Japanese)
- [2009:international conference] What Can Eye-Trackers Visualize?--An Approach to Capture the Reality of Search Processes
- [2009:domestic conference] Analisys of Web Interaction Focused on the Cognitive Process of User
- Hitomi Saito
- Conference of Web Intelligence and Interaction; Hiroshima(2009-07) (in Japanese)
- [2008:international conference] Enabling Multilingual Access in Digital Libraries
Other Publications †
- [2012:domestic conference] Proposal and Evaluation of a Spatial Visualization Method of Web Browsing Histories
- Junya Eda, Satoshi Shimada, Yohei Seki, Noriko Kando, Tetsuji Satoh
- Proceedings of the 4th Data Engineering and Information Management Forum (DEIM Forum 2012) C9-1 Mar 2012 (2012-03) (in Japanese)
- [2011:domestic conference] Changes Before and After Search of Users' Knowledge Structures on a Topic:Analysis Using the Concept-Map
- Hitomi Saito, Ryo Nakashima, Yuka Egusa, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Noriko Kando, Makiko Miwa
- 2011 Annual Conference of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge; Kagawa; Journal of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge; vol.21, no.2, pp.137-142. (2011-05) (in Japanese)
- doi:10.2964/jsik.21_03
- [2010:international workshop] CRES at LogCLEF 2010: Toward Understanding User Behaviors through Analysis of Search Sessions, Search Units, and Click Ranks
- Masao Takaku, Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito, Daisuke Ishikawa, Noriko Kando*, Hitoshi Terai and Makiko Miwa
- Padua, Italy; Proceedings of Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2011), Sept. 20-23, 2010, 11 p; (2010-09)
- [2009:domestic conference] Characteristics of Exploratory Search on the Web: Analysis of Think Aloud and Post-search Interviews
- [2009:domestic seminar] Eyes are the Window to the Mind!? -- Analysis of User Eye Movements during Viewing of Search Engine Results--
- Yuka Egusa
- Yokohama; 6th ARG Cafe (Lightning talk); (2009-11) (in Japanese)
- [Slides] 2009-11-12-arg.pdf
- [2009:book chapter] Information Seeking Behavior
- Makiko Miwa
- A New Turn of Information Access: Leading-edge Trend of Information Retrieval and Information Use. Bensei-Shuppan．Kenji Koyama, Kazuaki Kishida (editors). pp.51-69. (2009-10) (in Japanese)
- [2009:domestic seminar] Towards Next Generation Collaborative Research
- [2009:domestic conference] Link Depth: Analysis of Browsing Behavior on the Web
- [2009:domestic conference] Analysis of User Eye Movements during Viewing of Search Engine Results Pages in Web 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
- [2009:international seminar (invited only)] Multi-faceted Exploratory Search and Users' Cognitive Process
- Noriko Kando, Yuka Egusa, Teruhiko Kanazawa, Makiko Miwa, Hitomi Saito, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai
- Dagstuhl Seminar on Interactive Information Retrieval; Dagstuhl, Germany; (2009-03)
- http://www.dagstuhl.de/09101
- [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)
- wi2_hsaito-print.pdf
- [2008:misc] Towards a New Stage of Web Information Retrieval and Seeking
- [2008:misc] An Introduction to CRES Project
- [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
- [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)
Contact †
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