Task complexity, vertical display and user interaction in aggregated search

SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 435-444

  Arguello, Jaime ^a   Wu, Wan Ching ^a   Kelly, Diane ^a   Edwards, Ashlee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

aggregated search interfaces; evaluation; interaction; search behaviors; task complexity; user studies

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; INTERACTION; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SEARCH INTERFACES; TASK COMPLEXITY; USER STUDY;

BLENDING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84866597837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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