Developing organized information displays for voluminous works: a study of user clustering behavior |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Forest Resources Management, The University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada;2. Forests and Environment Program, Center for International Forestry Research, Jalan CIFOR, Situ Gede, Bogor 16115, Indonesia;1. Department of Physics, Chemistry and Material Science, School of Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Namibia, P/Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia;2. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Namibia, P/Bag 13301 Windhoek, Namibia;3. Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Science, University of the Free State, P.O. 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa;4. Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology, School of Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Namibia, P/Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia |
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| Abstract: | This paper investigates the ways in which people group or categorize documents associated with a voluminous work to guide the construction of organized displays for information retrieval systems (IRSs). Fifty participants completed an unconstrained sorting task in which they were asked to sort into groups 47 documents associated with the voluminous work A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. Participants were asked to group documents based on how similar they were to each other and such that the groups would help them to remember how to find them at a later time. Data collected from the sorting task were summarized using cluster analysis, employed to discover common groupings created by participants. Groupings discovered frequently shared physical format, language, and audience attributes. |
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