How does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult?

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 35-44

  Aula, Anne ^a   Khan, Rehan M ^a   Guan, Zhiwei ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral signals; difficult search tasks; search engines; search strategies; web search

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL SIGNALS; QUALITATIVE OBSERVATIONS; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SEARCH TASKS; SUCCESSFUL SEARCH; WEB SEARCHES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77954011910     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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