Search interface design and evaluation

C Liu, YH Liu, J Liu, R Bierig - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
This monograph reviews research on the design and evaluation of search user interfaces
that has been published within the past 10 years. Our primary goal is to integrate state-of-the …

Perspectives of Neurodiverse Participants in Interactive Information Retrieval

L Sitbon, G Berget, M Brereton - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
This monograph offers a survey of work to date to inform how interactions in information
retrieval systems could afford inclusion of users who are neurodiverse. This existing work is …

A systematic review of cost, effort, and load research in information search and retrieval, 1972–2020

M McGregor, L Azzopardi, M Halvey - ACM Transactions on Information …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
During the information search and retrieval (ISR) process, user-system interactions such as
submitting queries, examining results, and engaging with information impose some degree …

The effects of system initiative during conversational collaborative search

S Avula, B Choi, J Arguello - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Our research in this paper lies at the intersection of collaborative and conversational search.
We report on a Wizard of Oz lab study in which 27 pairs of participants collaborated on …

An exploratory study on a reinforcement learning prototype for multimodal image retrieval using a conversational search interface

A Kaushik, B Jacob, P Velavan - Knowledge, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the realm of information, conversational search is a relatively new trend. In this study, we
have developed, implemented, and evaluated a multiview conversational image search …

Understanding voice search behavior: review and synthesis of research

Z Xing, X Yuan, D Wu, Y Huang, J Mostafa - HCI International 2020-Late …, 2020 - Springer
This article reviews the recent user-oriented studies on voice search interaction and aims to
understand how users perform and perceive voice search. With a systematic data collection …

CoSearchAgent: A Lightweight Collaborative Search Agent with Large Language Models

P Gong, J Li, J Mao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06360, 2024 - arxiv.org
Collaborative search supports multiple users working together to accomplish a specific
search task. Research has found that designing lightweight collaborative search plugins …

A conceptual framework for implicit evaluation of conversational search interfaces

A Kaushik, GJF Jones - arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03940, 2021 - arxiv.org
Conversational search (CS) has recently become a significant focus of the information
retrieval (IR) research community. Multiple studies have been conducted which explore the …

Predicting Representations of Information Needs from Digital Activity Context

T Vuong, T Ruotsalo - ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Information retrieval systems often consider search-session and immediately preceding web-
browsing history as the context for predicting users' present information needs. However …

Comparing Conventional and Conversational Search Interaction using Implicit Evaluation Methods

A Kaushik, GJF Jones - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.09258, 2023 - arxiv.org
Conversational search applications offer the prospect of improved user experience in
information seeking via agent support. However, it is not clear how searchers will respond to …