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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult?
Search engines make it easy to check facts online, but finding some specific kinds of information sometimes proves to be difficult. We studied the behavioral signals that suggest ...
Anne Aula, Rehan M. Khan, Zhiwei Guan
ELPUB
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Towards an Information-Rich Society? Or an Information-Overloaded One? (Is the Media Becoming More Important Than the Message?)
The rapid growth in all forms of electronic publishing is creating many new problems – both technical and socio-economic. This paper examines some of these from three different ...
T. M. R. Ellis
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
You're getting warmer!: how proximity information affects search behavior in physical spaces
This paper describes the results of a Wizard of Oz study of people's search behavior using BuddySystem, a proximitysensing system designed to help end-users locate people, pl...
Leila Takayama, Lawrence Leung, Xiaodong Jiang, Ja...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Can search systems detect users' task difficulty?: some behavioral signals
In this paper, we report findings on how user behaviors vary in tasks with different difficulty levels as well as of different types. Two behavioral signals: document dwell time a...
Jingjing Liu, Chang Liu, Jacek Gwizdka, Nicholas J...
CP
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Statistical Regimes Across Constrainedness Regions
Abstract. Much progress has been made in terms of boosting the effectiveness of backtrack style search methods. In addition, during the last decade, a much better understanding of ...
Carla P. Gomes, Cèsar Fernández, Bar...