Examining the effects of task topic familiarity on searchers' behaviors in different task types

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Jingjing ^a   Liu, Chang ^b   Belkin, Nicholas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Personalization of IR; Task type; Topic familiarity; User behaviors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904015371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14505001033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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