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HICSS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
User-Based Evaluations of Search Engines: Hygiene Factors and Motivation Factors
In cyberspace, the emergence and increasing importance of search engine prompts numerous evaluation studies in regard to its effectiveness. Based on a user-oriented perspective, t...
Ya-Lan Chuang, Ling-Ling Wu
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Brand awareness and the evaluation of search results
We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This r...
Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Ying Zhang
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Why searchers switch: understanding and predicting engine switching rationales
Search engine switching is the voluntary transition between Web search engines. Engine switching can occur for a number of reasons, including user dissatisfaction with search resu...
Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Yunqiao Zhang, Blake Anders...
AVI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Oral messages improve visual search
Input multimodality combining speech and hand gestures has motivated numerous usability studies. Contrastingly, issues relating to the design and ergonomic evaluation of multimoda...
Suzanne Kieffer, Noelle Carbonell
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Retroactive answering of search queries
Major search engines currently use the history of a user's actions (e.g., queries, clicks) to personalize search results. In this paper, we present a new personalized service...
Beverly Yang, Glen Jeh