When foraging for information, users face a tradeoff between the accuracy and value of the acquired information and the time spent collecting it, a problem which also surfaces whe...
— In this paper we present a formal description of PROSA, a P2P resource management system heavily inspired by social networks. Social networks have been deeply studied in the la...
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mang...
The presentation of product information is very important in e-commerce websites. In this research, we study how disposition styles can influence users’ search patterns in produ...
Abstract. When you search for information regarding a particular person on the web, a search engine returns many pages. Some of these pages may be for people with the same name. Ho...
People with chronic health problems use online resources to understand and manage their condition, but many such resources can present competing and confusing viewpoints. We surve...
Jennifer Mankoff, Kateryna Kuksenok, Sara B. Kiesl...