Understanding the extent to which people'ssearch behaviors differ in terms of the interaction flow and information targeted is important in designing interfaces to help World...
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
Healthcare is shifting from being reactive to preventive, with a focus on maintaining general wellness through positive decisions on diet, exercise, and lifestyle. In this paper, ...
This paper presents a modified diary study that investigated how people performed personally motivated searches in their email, in their files, and on the Web. Although earlier st...
Jaime Teevan, Christine Alvarado, Mark S. Ackerman...
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...