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Research paper thumbnail of Second Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Research paper thumbnail of Second Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval - CHIIR '17, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Strategies for Evaluation of Interactive Multimedia Information Retrieval Systems

Research paper thumbnail of Personalization in text information retrieval: A survey

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Research paper thumbnail of Cognitive models and information transfer

Social Science Information Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Report on the Second Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks

ACM SIGIR Forum

There is broad consensus in the field of IR that search is complex in many use cases and applicat... more There is broad consensus in the field of IR that search is complex in many use cases and applications, both on the Web and in domain-specific collections, and both in our professional and in our daily life. Yet our understanding of complex search tasks, in comparison to simple look up tasks, is fragmented at best. The workshop addressed many open research questions: What are the obvious use cases and applications of complex search? What are essential features of work tasks and search tasks to take into account? And how do these evolve over time? With a multitude of information, varying from introductory to specialized, and from authoritative to speculative or opinionated, when should which sources of information be shown? How does the information seeking process evolve and what are relevant differences between different stages? With complex task and search process management, blending searching, browsing, and recommendations, and supporting exploratory search to sensemaking and anal...

Research paper thumbnail of Using discourse analysis for the design of information retrieval interaction mechanisms

Research paper thumbnail of Intelligent Information Retrieval: Understanding and Supporting Human Information Seeking

Research paper thumbnail of Reading time as an implicit measure of relevance in an information seeking task

Research paper thumbnail of Cross analysis of keeping personal information in different forms

Proceedings of the 2011 Iconference, 2011

ABSTRACT This paper examines keeping behavior of personal information in different forms by revie... more ABSTRACT This paper examines keeping behavior of personal information in different forms by reviewing and analyzing previous empirical studies on keeping personal information. By adopting user-centered and cross-form perspectives, similar behaviors as well as unique ...

Research paper thumbnail of Validation of a model of information seeking over multiple search sessions

Journal of the American Society For Information Science and Technology, Feb 15, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Query length in interactive information retrieval

Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval - SIGIR '03, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Understanding Judgment of Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the WWW

Proceedings of the Asis Annual Meeting, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Relationships between categories of relevance criteria and stage in task completion

Information Processing and Management an International Journal, Jul 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Special Issue on User Modeling and Information Filtering

Research paper thumbnail of First Toronto Conference on Database Users. Studies of User Needs and Behaviour

Canadian Journal of Information Science, 1987

... Title: First Toronto Conference on Database Users. Studies of User Needs and Behaviour. Autho... more ... Title: First Toronto Conference on Database Users. Studies of User Needs and Behaviour. Authors:Belkin, Nicholas J.; And Others. ... Microfiche to Megabytes. ERIC Microfiche Digitization. Help ERIC expand online access to documents currently available only on microfiche. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Personalizing Information Retrieval for Multi-session Tasks: Examining the Roles of Task Stage, Task Type, and Topic Knowledge on the Interpretation of Dwell Time as an Indicator of Document Usefulness

Journal of the Association For Information Science and Technology, May 1, 2014

Dwell time as a user behavior has been found in previous studies to be an unreliable predictor of... more Dwell time as a user behavior has been found in previous studies to be an unreliable predictor of document usefulness, with contextual factors such as the user's task needing to be considered in its interpretation. Task stage has been shown to influence search behaviors including usefulness judgments, as has task type. This paper reports on an investigation of how task stage and task type may help predict usefulness from the time that users spend on retrieved documents, over the course of several information seeking episodes. A 3-stage controlled experiment was conducted with 24 participants, each coming 3 times to work on 3 sub-tasks of a general task, couched either as "parallel" or "dependent" task type. The full task was to write a report on the general topic, with interim documents produced for each sub-task. Results show that task stage can help in inferring document usefulness from decision time, especially in the parallel task. The findings can be used to increase accuracy in predicting document usefulness and accordingly in personalizing search for multi-session tasks.

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating interactive retrieval systems

Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Acm Sigir Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of The effect multiple query representations on information retrieval system performance

Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Acm Sigir Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Jul 1, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Rutgers at the TREC 2012 Session Track

Research paper thumbnail of Second Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Research paper thumbnail of Second Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval - CHIIR '17, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Strategies for Evaluation of Interactive Multimedia Information Retrieval Systems

Research paper thumbnail of Personalization in text information retrieval: A survey

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Research paper thumbnail of Cognitive models and information transfer

Social Science Information Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Report on the Second Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks

ACM SIGIR Forum

There is broad consensus in the field of IR that search is complex in many use cases and applicat... more There is broad consensus in the field of IR that search is complex in many use cases and applications, both on the Web and in domain-specific collections, and both in our professional and in our daily life. Yet our understanding of complex search tasks, in comparison to simple look up tasks, is fragmented at best. The workshop addressed many open research questions: What are the obvious use cases and applications of complex search? What are essential features of work tasks and search tasks to take into account? And how do these evolve over time? With a multitude of information, varying from introductory to specialized, and from authoritative to speculative or opinionated, when should which sources of information be shown? How does the information seeking process evolve and what are relevant differences between different stages? With complex task and search process management, blending searching, browsing, and recommendations, and supporting exploratory search to sensemaking and anal...

Research paper thumbnail of Using discourse analysis for the design of information retrieval interaction mechanisms

Research paper thumbnail of Intelligent Information Retrieval: Understanding and Supporting Human Information Seeking

Research paper thumbnail of Reading time as an implicit measure of relevance in an information seeking task

Research paper thumbnail of Cross analysis of keeping personal information in different forms

Proceedings of the 2011 Iconference, 2011

ABSTRACT This paper examines keeping behavior of personal information in different forms by revie... more ABSTRACT This paper examines keeping behavior of personal information in different forms by reviewing and analyzing previous empirical studies on keeping personal information. By adopting user-centered and cross-form perspectives, similar behaviors as well as unique ...

Research paper thumbnail of Validation of a model of information seeking over multiple search sessions

Journal of the American Society For Information Science and Technology, Feb 15, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Query length in interactive information retrieval

Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval - SIGIR '03, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Understanding Judgment of Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the WWW

Proceedings of the Asis Annual Meeting, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Relationships between categories of relevance criteria and stage in task completion

Information Processing and Management an International Journal, Jul 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Special Issue on User Modeling and Information Filtering

Research paper thumbnail of First Toronto Conference on Database Users. Studies of User Needs and Behaviour

Canadian Journal of Information Science, 1987

... Title: First Toronto Conference on Database Users. Studies of User Needs and Behaviour. Autho... more ... Title: First Toronto Conference on Database Users. Studies of User Needs and Behaviour. Authors:Belkin, Nicholas J.; And Others. ... Microfiche to Megabytes. ERIC Microfiche Digitization. Help ERIC expand online access to documents currently available only on microfiche. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Personalizing Information Retrieval for Multi-session Tasks: Examining the Roles of Task Stage, Task Type, and Topic Knowledge on the Interpretation of Dwell Time as an Indicator of Document Usefulness

Journal of the Association For Information Science and Technology, May 1, 2014

Dwell time as a user behavior has been found in previous studies to be an unreliable predictor of... more Dwell time as a user behavior has been found in previous studies to be an unreliable predictor of document usefulness, with contextual factors such as the user's task needing to be considered in its interpretation. Task stage has been shown to influence search behaviors including usefulness judgments, as has task type. This paper reports on an investigation of how task stage and task type may help predict usefulness from the time that users spend on retrieved documents, over the course of several information seeking episodes. A 3-stage controlled experiment was conducted with 24 participants, each coming 3 times to work on 3 sub-tasks of a general task, couched either as "parallel" or "dependent" task type. The full task was to write a report on the general topic, with interim documents produced for each sub-task. Results show that task stage can help in inferring document usefulness from decision time, especially in the parallel task. The findings can be used to increase accuracy in predicting document usefulness and accordingly in personalizing search for multi-session tasks.

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating interactive retrieval systems

Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Acm Sigir Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of The effect multiple query representations on information retrieval system performance

Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Acm Sigir Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Jul 1, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Rutgers at the TREC 2012 Session Track