Understanding information seeking behavior through network traffic analysis

Many of today's information workers use the Internet as a valuable first-choice source for new knowledge. As such, Internet based information seeking is a key part of how information workers find information. This study develops techniques to quantify the information seeking patterns of information workers by looking at Web Site diversity, page rank, and general statistics of Web Site viewership. Future research by our group will build on these measurement techniques and explore the relationship between information worker productivity and Internet information seeking behavior.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Weaver, Cyrus-Charles

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Erik Brynjolfsson And Sinan Aral.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46520

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/46520