Behavior Modeling for Point of Interest Search

Haitian Chen, Zhihong Wang, Shaoping Ma, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu*, Juan Hu, Hua Chai, Zhijing Wu, Min Zhang, Naiqiang Tan

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With the increasing popularity of location-based services, the point-of-interest (POI) search has received considerable attention in recent years. Existing studies on POI search mostly focus on how to construct better retrieval models to retrieve the relevant POI based on query-POI matching. However, user behavior in POI search, i.e., how users examine the search engine result page (SERP), is mostly underexplored. A good understanding of user behavior is well-recognized as a key to develop effective user models and retrieval models to improve the search quality. Therefore, in this paper, we propose to investigate user behavior in POI search with a lab study in which users' eye movements and their implicit feedback on the SERP are collected. Based on the collected data, we analyze (1) query-level user behavior patterns in POI search, i.e., examination and interactions on SERP; (2) session-level user behavior patterns in POI search, i.e., query reformulation, termination of search, etc. Our work sheds light on user behavior in POI search and could potentially benefit future studies on related research topics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages1843-1847
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450394086
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jul 2023
Event46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 23 Jul 202327 Jul 2023

Publication series

NameSIGIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

Conference46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period23/07/2327/07/23

Keywords

  • eye tracking
  • mobile search
  • point of interest search
  • user behavior

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