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Evaluating example-based search tools

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Evaluating example-based search tools
A crucial element in consumer electronic commerce is a catalog tool that not only finds the product for the user, but also convinces him that he has made the best choice. To do that, it is important to show him ample choices while keeping his interaction effort below an acceptable limit. Among the various interaction models used in operational e-commerce sites, ranked lists are by far the most popular tool for product navigation and selection. However, as the number of product features and the complexity of user’s criteria increase, a ranked list’s efficiency becomes less satisfactory. As an alternative, research groups from the intelligent user interface community have developed various example-based search tools, including SmartClient from our laboratory. These tools not only perform personalized search, but also support tradeoff analysis. However, despite the academic interest, example-based search paradigms have not been widely adopted in practice. We have examined the perform...
Pearl Huan Z. Pu, Pratyush Kumar
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Type Conference
Year 2004
Where SIGECOM
Authors Pearl Huan Z. Pu, Pratyush Kumar
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