Task tours: Helping users tackle complex search tasks

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1885-1889

  Hassan, Ahmed ^a   White, Ryen W ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

search task support; task graph; task tours

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TASKS; COMPLEX SEARCHES; INFORMATION NEED; MULTIPLE QUERIES; SEARCH LOGS; SEARCH SESSIONS; SEARCH TASKS; TASK GRAPH; TASK TOURS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84871050638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2396761.2398537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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