Building the trail best traveled: Effects of domain knowledge on web search trailblazing

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1795-1804

  Yuan, Xiaojun ^a   White, Ryen W ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain knowledge; Search behavior; Search systems; Search trails; Trailblazing

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SEARCH SYSTEM; SEARCH TRAILS; TRAILBLAZING;

EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SEARCH ENGINES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84862098442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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