期刊名称：Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management
印刷版ISSN：2251-8223
电子版ISSN：2251-8231
出版年度：2014
卷号：29
期号：2
页码：317-331
出版社：Iranian Research Institute for Information and Technology
摘要：The aim of research is to investigate the influence of user’s characteristics on their relevance judgment. The research method was an analytical survey in which 40 masters students and graduates of Information and Knowledge Sciences formed the research population. NEO-personality inventory-revised was used to investigate the population in 5 factors (Extraversion/ Neuroticism/ Openness to experience/ agreeableness/ Conscientiousness). Relevance judgment was perfomed on 10 first retrieved records in Google for 5 keywords that had been searched by the research population and precision was measured. Findings showed that users’ relevance judgment is not the same despite the intervening control Extraversion and agreeableness have positive and significant relationship with relevance judgment and there is not any significant relationship between Neuroticism, Openness to experience and Conscientiousness with relevance judgment. In other words, users with characteristics such as Extraversion and agreeableness retrieved more related records. In general, some personal characteristics have influence on relevance judgment. Library and information managers can improve search process through providing suitable job conditions and suitable environment for users to search information in better situations.
关键词：Personality Characteristics ; Relevance Judgment ; Information Retrieval ; Information Needs
