Measuring improvement in user search performance resulting from optimal search tips

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 355-363

  Moraveji, Neema ^a   Russell, Daniel ^b   Bien, Jacob ^a   Mease, David ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistance; Effectiveness measures; Efficiency; Experimental design; Expertise; Query reformulation; Search interface; Suggestions; Tactics; Tips; User studies

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

ASSISTANCE; EFFECTIVENESS MEASURE; EXPERTISE; QUERY REFORMULATION; SEARCH INTERFACES; SUGGESTIONS; TACTICS; TIPS; USER STUDY;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 80052107534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2009966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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