Beyond Google: a Web search study

16 February 2015

This study looks at ways to improve search interfaces to better support complex tasks. Using "SearchAssist", an experimental search engine, you will be asked to perform multiple research tasks. You have to search the Web, formulate research topics and bookmark useful sites, while your interaction with the system is recorded using logs and eye tracking as you complete it. The experiment will take no longer than 60 minutes. Free chocolate and drinks are available during the experiment!

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Ethical approval

This study has been approved by the University of Nottingham’s School of Computer Science research ethics committee on 30 January 2015.

About the researcher

I am a Doctorate student at the University of Amsterdam, currently doing an internship at the University of Nottingham. My PhD looks at the support of complex search in search systems, with a specific focus on supporting various cognitive stages of search.