• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.379-398
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• 2014

This pilot study explored the effect of mental demand on a Web searcher's thoughts, emotions, efforts, and performance in Web searches in order to address whether or not there is any difference between searchers exposed to mental demand manipulation and searchers not exposed. Research data were collected via think-aloud protocol (TAP) with a dual-task in experiments and interviews with 10 subjects who participated in this study. For the searcher's thoughts, relevance judgment was found to be hindered by mental demand. For the searcher's emotions, the experimental group was more frustrated than the control group. With respect to the searcher's efforts, searchers for the experimental group with mental demand manipulation were more likely to spend more time, make fewer queries, and visit fewer pages but work harder to find more relevant information that they needed. Lastly, with regard to the searcher's performance, it is likely that performance was highly dependent upon the completion of the search tasks for both groups. The NASA-TLX six components and cognitive load scores of searchers did not make a significant difference in the outcome. The findings support the use of a dual-task methodology as a promising approach for the assessment of cognitive load induced by complex Web searches.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.719-729
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• 2018

Abstract In 2017, it has been reported that Google had more than 90% of the market share in search-engines of desktops and mobiles. Most people may consider that Google surely searches the entire web area. However, according to many researches for web data, Google only searches less than 10%, surprisingly. The most region is called the Deep Web, and it is indexable by special search engines, which are different from Google because they focus on a specific segment of interest. Those engines build their own deep-web databases and run particular algorithms to provide accurate and professional search results. There is no search engine that indexes the entire Web, currently. The best way is to use several search engines together for broad and efficient searches as best as possible. This paper defines that kind of search engine as Hybrid Search Engine and provides characteristics and differences compared to conventional search engines, along with a frame of hybrid search engine.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.402-406
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• 2007

Rich Internet Application(RIA) is one of the Web 2.0 technologies and is expected to be a next generation user interface technique which allows flexible and dynamic manipulation for Web searches. This paper addresses a personalization mechanism for advanced Web search using RIA for abundant user interactions. We devised a dynamic and graphical user interface instead of previous text-based searches and a client side application for storing personal preference information. In this research, we implemented the graphical personalized search manager using Yahoo web search API and widget, and demonstrated its effectiveness by performing some experiments with various query terms and representative predicates.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.67-75
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• 2005

Mobile devices compared with personal computers on the desktop have low bandwidths, small screens, and relatively slow speeds. These systems have practical problems with information searches in a web environment. Information searching of various web contents on the small size screen has especially severe limitations. We propose a filtering technique of web contents which can overcome the limitations of small size screens and meet the user requirements in a PDA environment. For these constructions, we first divide the screen into segment blocks and then extract content blocks according to the user requirements, so that only filtered web contents will be shown. The performance evaluation of the proposed technique saves an average time of about 30% by displaying only the extracted information instead of the whole web page.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.227-243
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• 2017

This study proposed a structural and semantic framework for the characterization of events and segments in Web videos that permits content-based searches and dynamic video summarization. Although MPEG-7 supports multimedia structural and semantic descriptions, it is not currently suitable for describing multimedia content on the Web. Thus, the proposed metadata framework that was designed considering Web environments provides a thorough yet simple way to describe Web video contents. Precisely, the metadata framework was constructed on the basis of Chatman's narrative theory, three multimedia metadata formats (PBCore, MPEG-7, and TV-Anytime), and social metadata. It consists of event information, eventGroup information, segment information, and video (program) information. This study also discusses how to automatically extract metadata elements including structural and semantic metadata elements from Web videos.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.1B
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• pp.67-74
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• 2012

As the amount of information on the web augments, more efforts become subsequently necessary to find the information that users want. Researchers have studied and tried a number of methods to find the wanted information more accurately and effectively, It is hard to find the information that suits to what users really want to find on the web, because previous search methods have not reflected users' aim in searches. This paper suggests an effective method in information searching by reflecting web users' interests and aim in searches. This process involves distinguishing the reliable online communities and searching based on the distinguished communities. Newly suggested method shows an improvement in accuracy in comparison to the previous methods.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.21-26
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a customer personalized system that presents the web pages to users which are customized to their individuality. It analyzes the action of users who visit the shopping mall, and preferentially supplies the necessary information to them. When they actually buy some items, it forecasts the user's access pattern to web site and their following purchasable items and improves their web page on the bases of their individuality. It reasons the relation among the web documents and among the items by using the log data of web server and the purchase information of DB. For reasoning, it employs Apriori algorithm, which is a method that searches the association rule. It reasons the web pages by considering the user's access pattern and time by using the web log and reasons the user's purchase pattern by using the purchase information of DB. On the basis of the relation among them, it appends the related web pages to link of user's web pages and displays the inferred goods on user's web pages.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.29-32
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a customer personalized system that presents the web pages to users which are customized to their individuality. It analyzes the action of users who visit the shopping mall, and preferentially supplies the necessary information to them. When they actually buy some items, it forecasts the users' access pattern to web site and their following purchasable items and improves their web pare on the bases of their individuality. It reasons the relation among the web documents and among the items by using the log data of web server and the purchase information of DB. For reasoning it employs Rough Set, which is a method that searches the association rule and offers most suitable cases by reduces cases. It reasons the web pages by considering the users' access pattern and time by using the web log and reasons the users' purchase pattern by using the purchase information of DB. On the basis of the relation among them, it appends the related web pages to link of users' web pages and displays the inferred goods on users' web pages.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.241-248
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• 2006

Web is greatly contributing in providing a variety of information. Especially, as media for the purpose of development and education of human resources, the role of web is important. Furthermore, E-Learning through web plays an important role for each enterprise and an educational institution. Also, above all, fast and various searches are required in order to manage and search a great number of educational contents in web. Therefore, most of present information is composed in HTML, so there are lots of restrictions. As a solution to such restriction, XML a standard of Web document, and its various search functions is being extended and studied variously. This paper proposes a search system able to search XML in E-Learning or var ious contents of non-XML using mobile device PDA.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.41-49
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• 2011

This paper introduces a new search model which can retrieve information instantly and easily about a given search word on Internet and control search spaces diversely. In the existing web searches, because the user has to stop his work, run web browsers, connect to special internet sites, and type the search word by keyboard. it is a long way and not a simple way. Also the search result is too much. The user suffers difficulties of multiple searches for different categories such as dictionary, image, video clips, etc. The software implemented in this paper enables for the user to select search word simply at any documents on the screen and make search started by simply pressing CRTL key and left button of the mouse simultaneously. The software is a mash up style using the Open API which is provided by a web site and can be freely available in any other sites. By calling different Open APIs of several web sites, the mash-up software can integrate search functions of many different sites. We evaluate that the software implemented in this paper will be a good reference of mash-up as one with characteristics of easy and instant search, simple result, diversity of search category, and scalability of search functions.