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SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
When more is less: the paradox of choice in search engine use
In numerous everyday domains, it has been demonstrated that increasing the number of options beyond a handful can lead to paralysis and poor choice and decrease satisfaction with ...
Antti Oulasvirta, Janne P. Hukkinen, Barry Schwart...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A multilingual usage consultation tool based on internet searching: more than a search engine, less than QA
We present a usage consultation tool, based on Internet searching, for language learners. When a user enters a string of words for which he wants to find usages, the system sends ...
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Hiroshi Nakagawa
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Defection detection: predicting search engine switching
Searchers have a choice about which Web search engine they use when looking for information online. If they are unsuccessful on one engine, users may switch to a different engine ...
Allison P. Heath, Ryen W. White
COGSCI
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Moral Principles or Consumer Preferences? Alternative Framings of the Trolley Problem
We created paired moral dilemmas with minimal contrasts in wording, a research strategy that has been advocated as a way to empirically establish principles operative in a domain-...
Tage S. Rai, Keith J. Holyoak
ICWSM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Emotionality in Text as Predictor of Behavior
The present study demonstrates how the emotional content of search terms and their eventual results affects the breadth of a users' search for information. We observed the qu...
Elliot Onn, Carey K. Morewedge