An Exploratory Study on the Explicitness of User Intentions in Digital Photo Retrieval

Search queries are typically interpreted as specification of information need of a user. Typically the search query is either interpreted as is or based on the context of a user, being for instance a user profile, his/her previously undertaken searches or any other background information. The actual intent of the user - the goal s/he wants to achieve with information retrieval - is an important part of a user's context. In this paper we present the results of an exploratory study on the interplay between the goals of users and their search behavior in multimedia retrieval.