Searching, browsing, and clicking in a search session: Changes in user behavior by task and over time

SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 607-616

  Jiang, Jiepu ^a   He, Daqing ^b   Allan, James ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Browsing; Clicking; Eye tracking; Search behavior; Session; Task

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

BROWSING; CLICKING; EYE-TRACKING; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SESSION; TASK;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84904568953     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2600428.2609633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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