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ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluating the effectiveness of term frequency histograms for supporting interactive web search tasks
Throughout many of the different types of Web searches people perform, the primary tasks are to first craft a query that effectively captures their information needs, and then eva...
Orland Hoeber, Xue Dong Yang
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Personalized view-based search and visualization as a means for deep/semantic web data access
Effective access to and navigation in information stored in deep Web ontological repositories or relational databases has yet to be realized due to issues with usability of user i...
Mária Bieliková, Michal Tvarozek
CHI
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
CiteSense: supporting sensemaking of research literature
Making sense of research literature is a complicated process that involves various information seeking and comprehension tasks. The lack of support for sensemaking in existing sys...
Xiaolong Zhang, Yan Qu, C. Lee Giles, Piyou Song
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Desperately seeking simplicity: how young adults with cognitive disabilities and their families adopt assistive technologies
A surprisingly high percentage of assistive technology devices (35% or more) are purchased, but not successfully adopted. Through semi-structured interviews with a dozen families,...
Melissa Dawe
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Exploring the cognitive consequences of social search
To what extent can social interactions augment people's natural search experiences? What factors influence the decision to turn to a friend for help? Our paper presents the p...
Brynn M. Evans, Sanjay Kairam, Peter Pirolli