The success of many online services today depends on the company’s ability to persuade users to take specific actions, such as registering or inviting friends. We examined over 5...
Web search and browsing have been streamlined for a comfortable experience when the network connection is fast. Existing tools, however, are not optimized for scenarios where conn...
Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Kentaro To...
By examining searcher behavior on a large search engine, we have identified seven basic kinds of task behaviors that can be observed in web search session logs. In the studies rep...
Daniel M. Russell, Diane Tang, Melanie Kellar, Rob...
It is argued that the analysis of the learner's generated log files during interactions with a learning environment is necessary to produce interpretative views of their activ...
Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...