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JECR
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Usability for Mobile Commerce Across Multiple Form Factors
Current research on usability for mobile commerce has focused on single platforms and very limited aspects of commerce activities. We conducted an exploratory study to examine usa...
Susy S. Chan, Xiaowen Fang, Jack R. Brzezinski, Ya...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
User-centric content freshness metrics for search engines
In order to return relevant search results, a search engine must keep its local repository synchronized to the Web, but it is usually impossible to attain perfect freshness. Hence...
Ali Dasdan, Xinh Huynh
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
How does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult?
Search engines make it easy to check facts online, but finding some specific kinds of information sometimes proves to be difficult. We studied the behavioral signals that suggest ...
Anne Aula, Rehan M. Khan, Zhiwei Guan
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
This paper presents a modified diary study that investigated how people performed personally motivated searches in their email, in their files, and on the Web. Although earlier st...
Jaime Teevan, Christine Alvarado, Mark S. Ackerman...
DEXA
2008
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Query Recommendation Using Large-Scale Web Access Logs and Web Page Archive
Query recommendation suggests related queries for search engine users when they are not satisfied with the results of an initial input query, thus assisting users in improving sear...
Lin Li, Shingo Otsuka, Masaru Kitsuregawa