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 …

Information need awareness: an EEG study

D Michalkova, M Parra-Rodriguez… - Proceedings of the 45th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
A fundamental goal of Information Retrieval (IR) is to satisfy searchers' information need (IN).
Advances in neuroimaging technologies have allowed for interdisciplinary research to …

One Agent To Rule Them All: Towards Multi-agent Conversational AI

C Clarke, JJ Peper, K Krishnamurthy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The increasing volume of commercially available conversational agents (CAs) on the market
has resulted in users being burdened with learning and adopting multiple agents to …

One Agent Too Many: User Perspectives on Approaches to Multi-agent Conversational AI

C Clarke, K Krishnamurthy, W Talamonti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Conversational agents have been gaining increasing popularity in recent years. Influenced
by the widespread adoption of task-oriented agents such as Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa …

Exploring the impact of conversational strategies on user search experience in goal-oriented tasks in a voice-only domain

M Dubiel, M Halvey, L Azzopardi - 2021 - strathprints.strath.ac.uk
Conversational Search has recently emerged as a new information retrieval paradigm [154].
Although previous research considered theoretical aspects of accessing information via …