Can search systems detect users' task difficulty? Some behavioral signals

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 845-846

  Liu, Jingjing ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Gwizdka, Jacek ^a   Belkin, Nicholas J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dwell time; First dwell time; Queries; Task difficulty; Task type

Indexed keywords

DWELL TIME; QUERIES; SEARCH SYSTEM; TASK DIFFICULTY; TASK TYPE; USER BEHAVIORS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 77956035353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835645     Document Type: Conference Paper

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