Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval refers to systems that support multiple users searching together at the same time in order to satisfy a shared information need. To ...
Search engines, generally, return results without any regard for the concepts in which the user is interested. In this paper, we present our approach to personalizing search engin...
People frequently use the world-wide web to find their most preferred item among a large range of options. We call this task preference-based search. The most common tool for pref...
We investigate how users interact with the results page of a WWW search engine using eye-tracking. The goal is to gain into how users browse the presented abstracts and how they s...