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Document triage is the moment in the information seeking process when the user first decides the relevance of a document to their information need [17]. This paper reports a study of user behaviour during document triage. The study reveals two main findings: first, that there is a small set of common navigational patterns; second, that certain document features strongly influence users’ navigation.
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Loizides, F., Buchanan, G. (2009). An Empirical Study of User Navigation during Document Triage. In: Agosti, M., Borbinha, J., Kapidakis, S., Papatheodorou, C., Tsakonas, G. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_15
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