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JSW
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
A Task-oriented Approach to Search Engine Usability Studies
Usability is a multi-dimensional characteristic of a computer system. This paper focuses on usability as a measurement of interaction between the user and the system. The research ...
Isak Taksa, Amanda Spink, Robert Goldberg
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Visual-semantic graphs: using queries to reduce the semantic gap in web image retrieval
We explore the application of a graph representation to model similarity relationships that exist among images found on the Web. The resulting similarity-induced graph allows us t...
Barbara Poblete, Benjamin Bustos, Marcelo Mendoza,...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
RuralCafe: web search in the rural developing world
The majority of people in rural developing regions do not have access to the World Wide Web. Traditional network connectivity technologies have proven to be prohibitively expensiv...
Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Jinyang Li
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Frontiers, challenges, and opportunities for information retrieval: Report from SWIRL 2012 the second strategic workshop on info
During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the works...
James Allan, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Mark...