Research frontiers in information retrieval: Report from the third strategic workshop on information retrieval in lorne (swirl 2018)

JS Culpepper, F Diaz, MD Smucker - ACM SIGIR Forum, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The purpose of the Strategic Workshop in Information Retrieval in Lorne is to explore the
long-range issues of the Information Retrieval field, to recognize challenges that are on-or …

[图书][B] Interactions with search systems

RW White - 2016 - books.google.com
Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently
conducted through interactions with search systems. The retrieval and comprehension of …

Visual challenges in the everyday lives of blind people

E Brady, MR Morris, Y Zhong, S White… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
The challenges faced by blind people in their everyday lives are not well understood. In this
paper, we report on the findings of a large-scale study of the visual questions that blind …

Social networking site use by mothers of young children

MR Morris - Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present the first formal study of how mothers of young children (aged three
and under) use social networking sites, particularly Facebook and Twitter, including mothers' …

Searchbots: User engagement with chatbots during collaborative search

S Avula, G Chadwick, J Arguello, R Capra - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Popular messaging platforms such as Slack have given rise to hundreds of chatbots that
users can engage with individually or as a group. We present a Wizard of Oz study on the …

Collaborative search revisited

MR Morris - Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Despite recent innovations in technologies supporting collaborative web search [11, 13, 25,
34, 35, 37], the features of the primary tools for digital information seeking (web browsers …

Slow search: Information retrieval without time constraints

J Teevan, K Collins-Thompson, RW White… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Significant time and effort has been devoted to reducing the time between query receipt and
search engine response, and for good reason. Research suggests that even slightly higher …

To search or to ask: The routing of information needs between traditional search engines and social networks

A Oeldorf-Hirsch, B Hecht, MR Morris… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
In status message question asking (SMQA), members of social networking sites make use of
status messages to express information needs to friends and contacts. We present findings …

Choicemates: Supporting unfamiliar online decision-making with multi-agent conversational interactions

J Park, B Min, X Ma, J Kim - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.01331, 2023 - arxiv.org
Unfamiliar decisions--decisions where people lack adequate domain knowledge or
expertise--specifically increase the complexity and uncertainty of the process of searching …

User motivations for asking questions in online Q & A services

E Choi, C Shah - Journal of the Association for Information …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Online Q & A services are information sources where people identify their information need,
formulate the need in natural language, and interact with one another to satisfy their needs …