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UM
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Designing TV Viewer Stereotypes for an Electronic Program Guide
This paper describes how a user modeling knowledge base for personalized TV servers can be generated starting from an analysis of lifestyles surveys. The aim of the research is the...
Cristina Gena
CHIMIT
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Design guidelines for system administration tools developed through ethnographic field studies
Information Technology system administrators (sysadmins) perform the crucial and never-ending work of maintaining the technical infrastructure on which our society depends. Comput...
Eben M. Haber, John H. Bailey
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Evaluating web search using task completion time
We consider experiments to measure the quality of a web search algorithm based on how much total time users take to complete assigned search tasks using that algorithm. We first ...
Ya Xu, David Mease
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 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
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Automatic searching of tables in digital libraries
Tables are ubiquitous. Unfortunately, no search engine supports table search. In this paper, we propose a novel table specific searching engine, TableSeer, to facilitate the table...
Ying Liu, Kun Bai, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles