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ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Explaining User Performance in Information Retrieval: Challenges to IR Evaluation
The paper makes three points of significance for IR research: (1) The Cranfield paradigm of IR evaluation seems to lose power when one looks at human instead of system performance....
Kalervo Järvelin
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 4 months ago
Coordinating the ordinary: social information uses of Facebook by adults
Social network sites (SNSs) are bundles of information and communication tools that can be used to support collaboration, among other uses. In a qualitative study of adult Faceboo...
Donghee Yvette Wohn, Cliff Lampe, Jessica Vitak, N...
AVI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
The challenge of information visualization evaluation
As the field of information visualization matures, the tools and ideas described in our research publications are reaching users. The reports of usability studies and controlled e...
Catherine Plaisant
UC
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Characterising Enzymes for Information Processing: Towards an Artificial Experimenter
The information processing capabilities of many proteins are currently unexplored. The complexities and high dimensional parameter spaces make their investigation impractical. Diff...
Chris Lovell, Gareth Jones, Steve R. Gunn, Klaus-P...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Reactive information foraging for evolving goals
Information foraging models have predicted the navigation paths of people browsing the web and (more recently) of programmers while debugging, but these models do not explicitly m...
Joseph Lawrance, Margaret M. Burnett, Rachel K. E....