Experiments and Imperilments of Media Equation on Information Retrieval

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23700283
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Aichi University of Education
• Principal Investigator: SAITO Hitomi 愛知教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (00378233)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: Human Agent Interaction / 擬人化エージェント / メディアイクエーション / 情報検索 / インタフェース

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to investigate the effect of human agent interaction in web search system on users’ evaluation and impression of the system and their search behaviors. First, we constructed the system with agent who serves as a contact. The experimental results showed that the impression of the system changes by adding human elements to the system.
Seconds, we constructed the systems with agent who plays as a colleague, we constructed three systems that were the system with a “snuggle agent” who provided suggestions and evaluations on user’s search and a “twin-track agent” who provided their search and search results, and a base system without an agent. The experimental results showed that (1) uses’ impression of the agent systems were greater than that of the base system, (2) the users who used the agent systems changed keywords more frequently than the users who used the base system.

Free Research Field

情報検索，HCI