Understanding the effects of control and transparency in searching as learning

Cecilia di Sciascio, Jordan Barria Pineda, Eduardo Enrique Veas, Colleen Culley

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the benefits of adopting user interfaces that offer control and transparency for searching in contexts of learning activities. Concretely, we conducted a user study with pharmacy students performing a problem-solving task in the course of a university lecture. The task involved finding scientific papers containing relevant information to solve a clinical case. Students were split into two independent groups and assigned one search tool to perform the task. The baseline group worked with PubMed, a popular search engine in the life sciences domain, whereas the second half of the class was assigned an exploratory search system (ESS) designed for control and transparency. In the analysis, we cover the objective and subjective dimensions of the task outcomes. Firstly, the objective analysis addresses the inherent difficulty of the search task in a learning scenario and identifies certain improvements in performance for those students using the ESS, most notably when searching for primary-source content. The subjective analysis investigates the human factors side, providing evidence that the ESS effectively increases the perception of control and transparency and is able to produce a better user experience. Lastly, we report on perceived learning as a subjective dimension measured separately from user experience.
Originalspracheenglisch
TitelIUI '20: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Herausgeber (Verlag)Association of Computing Machinery
Seiten498-509
Seitenumfang12
ISBN (elektronisch)9781450371186
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 17 März 2020
Veranstaltung25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces: IUI 2020 - Virtuell, Italien
Dauer: 17 März 202020 März 2020

Konferenz

Konferenz25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Land/GebietItalien
OrtVirtuell
Zeitraum17/03/2020/03/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-computer interaction

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