Abstract :
Successive information searches are fairly common. To
enhance the understanding of the behavior, this study
attempted to improve both the descriptive and explanatory
power of the Multiple Information Seeking Episodes
(MISE) model, a conceptual model characterizing factors
affecting successive searches. It empirically observed
how the key factors in the information seeking process
in the MISE model evolve over multiple search sessions
and explained how those factors are affected by other
factors associated with searchers, search activity,
search context, systems, information attainment, and information–
use activities. The validated and enriched
MISE model can be extended to serve the basis for future
studies in other complex searches process such as
multi-tasking and collaborative searches, and can also
help identify problems that users face and thus derive
requirements for system support
