When more is less: The paradox of choice in search engine use

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 516-523

  Oulasvirta, Antti ^a   Hukkinen, Janne P ^a   Schwartz, Barry ^b  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Relevance judgments; Satisfaction; Search engines; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

RELEVANCE JUDGMENT; RELEVANCE JUDGMENTS; SATISFACTION; USER SATISFACTION;

INFORMATION SERVICES; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 72449138631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1572030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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