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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Predicting user interests from contextual information
Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...
Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Liwei Chen
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Human performance and retrieval precision revisited
Several studies have found that the Cranfield approach to evaluation can report significant performance differences between retrieval systems for which little to no performance...
Mark D. Smucker, Chandra Prakash Jethani
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
CoSearch: a system for co-located collaborative web search
Web search is often viewed as a solitary task; however, there are many situations in which groups of people gather around a single computer to jointly search for information onlin...
Saleema Amershi, Meredith Ringel Morris
CHI
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
This paper presents a modified diary study that investigated how people performed personally motivated searches in their email, in their files, and on the Web. Although earlier st...
Jaime Teevan, Christine Alvarado, Mark S. Ackerman...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Characterizing the usability of interactive applications through query log analysis
People routinely rely on Internet search engines to support their use of interactive systems: they issue queries to learn how to accomplish tasks, troubleshoot problems, and other...
Adam Fourney, Richard Mann, Michael Terry