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2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Investigating behavioral variability in web search
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...
Ryen W. White, Steven M. Drucker
ACSC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
An investigation on a community's web search variability
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...
Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Justin Zobel
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Investigating web search strategies and forum use to support diet and weight loss
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, ...
m. c. schraefel, Ryen W. White, Paul André,...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
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...
WSDM
2010
ACM
322views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
Inferring Search Behaviors Using Partially Observable Markov (POM) Model
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...
Kuansan Wang, Nikolas Gloy, Xiaolong Li