Probing the interconnections between geo exploration and information exploration behavior
As increasingly diverse facets of human life including socializing, exercising, and information seeking are mediated by ubiquitous technology, they open the doors for the study of the hitherto under explored interconnections between them. This work motivates and grounds the use of geo exploration data to predict the information exploration behavior of users and to support their search. Based on a two week field study involving 35 participants, we have identified multiple geo exploration features that have significant associations with a user's information exploration behavior. We also found that the same geo exploration features could be combined to build predictive models for various facets of an individual's information exploration behavior, and these models performed significantly better than comparable personality based models.
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