On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 09:33 +0000, femorandeira wrote: > An interesting paper on this is "Improved search engines and > navigation preference in personal information management", by Bergman > et al. (2008). > I get a look to the paper, and in my opinion it demostrates nothing. It is based exclusively on "personal preferences" of people asked to try a desktop search engine, and it is not required yet another scientific paper to explain people are hard to move from their habits (in this case: browse the filesystem instead search contents). Self-evaluated "computer experience" of partecipants if between 3.54 and 4.30 on a 1-5 scale (cfr. paragraph 4.1): given that people use to over-evaluate their capabilities, it is a quite high value and suggests they were far enough "contaminated" by the addiction of file browsing.
> Now, this is just an experiment and I am not trying to defend the > current state of things, but I would like to see some evidence before > jumping on the wagon :-) > A more significative test would get a more variegated set of partecipants (including people with absolutely no computer literacy, and a more accurate evaluation about their true competences), and would consists in a monitored ambient where efficiency is measured. Providing ad-hoc browse-only and search-only interfaces, using partecipants' own files (or a set of files they are trained for), and timing retrieval operations. -- Roberto -MadBob- Guido http://claimid.com/madbob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
