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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke
DIAGRAMS
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Effects of Users' Background Diagram Knowledge and Task Characteristics upon Information Display Selection
Abstract. This paper explores factors associated with effective external representation (ER) use. We describe an information-processing approach to the assessment of ER knowledge. ...
Beate Grawemeyer, Richard Cox
HICSS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Barriers to Information Access across Languages on the Internet: Network and Language Effects
This paper investigates the role of language in accessing information on the Internet. We combined data about website visitors through log-file analysis with data about web-hosts ...
Anett Kralisch, Thomas Mandl
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
PRESENCE
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Learning, Experience, and Cognitive Factors in the Presence Experiences of Gamers: An Exploratory Relational Study
This paper presents a large scale (N 101) exploratory relational study of computer gamers' gaming habits and their presence experiences. The study posited and examined the ef...
David Nunez, Edwin H. Blake