Out of sight, not out of mind: On the effect of social and physical detachment on information need

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 385-394

  Yom Tov, Elad ^a   Diaz, Fernando ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance; Information; Need; Physical; Social

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS;

DISTANCE; INFORMATION; NEED; PHYSICAL; SOCIAL;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 80052113385     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2009970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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