This paper describes an investigation in progress into the searching behaviour of end-users and how it is affected by interface design. The project focused on qualitative data gat...
Victoria Manglano, Micheline Beaulieu, Stephen E. ...
Understanding the extent to which people'ssearch behaviors differ in terms of the interaction flow and information targeted is important in designing interfaces to help World...
ld is a prototype IR user interface. It implements visualizations of an abstract information space – fulltext. The presentation demonstrates a visual user interface for the prob...
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...
World Wide Web search engines typically return thousands of results to the users. To avoid users browsing through the whole list of results, search engines use ranking algorithms ...