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Applying information foraging theory to understand user interaction with content-based image retrieval

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The paper proposes an ISE (Information goal, Search strategy, Evaluation threshold) user classification model based on Information Foraging Theory for understanding user interaction with content-based image retrieval (CBIR). The proposed model is verified by a multiple linear regression analysis based on 50 users' interaction features collected from a task-based user study of interactive CBIR systems. To our best knowledge, this is the first principled user classification model in CBIR verified by a formal and systematic qualitative analysis of extensive user interaction data.

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        IIiX '10: Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
        August 2010
        408 pages
        ISBN:9781450302470
        DOI:10.1145/1840784

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