Predicting task difficulty for different task types

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 47, Issue , 2010, Pages

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

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral measures; Difficulty prediction; Dwell time; First dwell time; Task difficulty; Task type; User behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861444759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504701173     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. Aula, A., Khan, R. & Guan, Z. (2010). How does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult? Proceedings of CHI '10, 35-44.
2. Byström, K. (2002). Information and information sources in tasks of varying complexity. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 53(7), 581-591.
3. Byström, K., & Järvelin, K. (1995). Task complexity affects information seeking and use. Information Processing & Management, 31, 191-213.
4. Gwizdka, J., Spence, I. (2006). What can searching behavior tell us about the difficulty of information tasks? A study of Web navigation. Proceedings of ASIST '06.
5. Gwizdka, J. (2008). Revisiting search task difficulty: Behavioral and individual difference measures. Proceedings of ASIST '08.
6. Ingwersen, P. & Järvelin, K. (2005). The turn: Integration of information seeking and retrieval in context. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. Secaucus, NJ, USA.
7. Kelly, D., & Belkin, N.J. (2004). Display time as implicit feedback: Understanding task effects. Proceedings of SIGIR '04, Sheffield, UK, 377-384.
8. Kellar, M., Watters, C., & Shepherd, M. (2007). A field study characterizing Web-based information-seeking tasks. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 58(7), 999-1018.
9. Kim, J. (2006). Task difficulty as a predictor and indicator of web searching interaction. Proceedings of CHI '06, 959-964.
10. Li, Y. & Belkin, N.J. (2008). A faceted approach to conceptualizing tasks in information seeking. Information Processing & Management, 44, 1822-1837.
11. Liu, J. & Belkin, N.J. (2010). Personalizing information retrieval for multi-session tasks: The roles of task stage and task type. Proceedings of SIGIR '10.
12. Liu, J., Cole, M., Liu, C., Bierig, R., Gwizdka, J., Belkin, N.J., Zhang, J., & Zhang, X. (2010). Search behaviors in different task types. Proceedings of JCDL '10.
13. Liu, J., Liu, C., Gwizdka, J., & Belkin, N. (2010). Can search systems detect users' task difficulty? Some behavioral signals. Proceedings of SIGIR '10.
14. Toms, E., MacKenzie, T., Jordan, C., O'Brien, H., Freund, L., Toze, S. et al. (2007). How task affects information search. Workshop Pre-proceedings of in Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX), 337-341.
15. White, R., & Kelly, D. (2006). A study of the effects of personalization and task information on implicit feedback performance. Proceedings of CIKM '06, 297-306.