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...
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...
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
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 “...
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...