How query cost affects search behavior

SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 23-32

  Azzopardi, Leif ^a   Kelly, Diane ^b   Brennan, Kathy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic Models; Interactive Information Retrieval; Production Theory; Query Cost; Query Interfaces; Search Behavior

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC MODELS; INTERACTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PRODUCTION THEORY; QUERY COSTS; QUERY INTERFACES; SEARCH BEHAVIOR;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

COSTS;

EID: 84883065084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2484028.2484049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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