Effects of position and number of relevant documents retrieved on users' evaluations of system performance

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Kelly, Diane ^a   Fu, Xin ^a   Shah, Chirag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Precision; Presentation of search results; Ranking; Satisfaction; Search performance; User evaluation of performance

Indexed keywords

PRECISION; RANKING; SATISFACTION; SEARCH PERFORMANCE; SEARCH RESULTS; USER EVALUATIONS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INVESTMENTS; SAFETY DEVICES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 80051529994     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1740592.1740597     Document Type: Article

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