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WSDM
2012
ACM
258views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 24 days ago
Large-scale analysis of individual and task differences in search result page examination strategies
Understanding the impact of individual and task differences on search result page examination strategies is important in developing improved search engines. Characterizing these e...
Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jef...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Visual search and reading tasks using ClearType and regular displays: two experiments
Two experiments comparing user performance on ClearType and Regular displays are reported. In the first, 26 participants scanned a series of spreadsheets for target information. S...
Andrew Dillon, Lisa Kleinman, Gil Ok Choi, Randolp...
IHI
2012
330views Healthcare» more  IHI 2012»
12 years 25 days ago
Health information searching behavior in MedlinePlus and the impact of tasks
Consumer health information is increasingly available online, but this vast amount of information is not necessarily accessible to general consumers. To design effective health in...
Yan Zhang, Peiling Wang, Amy Heaton, Heidi Winkler
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Action modeling: language models that predict query behavior
We present a novel language modeling approach to capturing the query reformulation behavior of Web search users. Based on a framework that categorizes eight different types of “...
G. Craig Murray, Jimmy J. Lin, Abdur Chowdhury
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 days ago
Interactive effects of age and interface differences on search strategies and performance
We present results from an experiment that studied the information search behavior of younger and older adults in a medical decision-making task. To study how different combinatio...
Jessie Chin, Wai-Tat Fu