Characterizing stages of a multi-session complex search task through direct and indirect query modifications

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 897-900

  He, Jiyin ^a   Bron, Marc ^b   De Vries, Arjen ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multi session task; Query modification

Indexed keywords

DIRECT MODIFICATION; INTERACTION BEHAVIOR; MULTI-SESSION TASK; QUERY MODIFICATION; QUERY REFORMULATION; SEARCH INTERFACES; SPECIFIC COMPONENT; USER INTERACTION BEHAVIOR;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; RESEARCH; SAFETY DEVICES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84883129010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2484028.2484178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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