With the emergence of various information access systems exhibiting increasing complexity,
there is a critical need for sound and scalable means of automatic evaluation. To address …

Si une situation d'enseignement met en œuvre des contraintes de lieu, de temps, de savoir
enseigné et de manière d'apprendre, le numérique peut-il réduire ces contraintes? Pour …

This paper provides overview and instruction regarding the evaluation of interactive
information retrieval systems with users. The primary goal of this article is to catalog and …

Session search is a complex search task that involves multiple search iterations triggered by
query reformulations. We observe a Markov chain in session search: user's judgment of …

Introduction. By integrating the perspectives of uses and gratifications theory and perceived
interactivity, this study proposes a theoretical model to test what may affect users' decision to …

Dwell time as a user behavior has been found in previous studies to be an unreliable
predictor of document usefulness, with contextual factors such as the user's task needing to …

The importance of tasks in information retrieval (IR) has been long argued for, addressed in
different ways, often ignored, and frequently revisited. For decades, scholars made a case …

This paper presents a comparative evaluation of Google Scholar and 11 other bibliographic
databases (Academic Search Elite, AgeLine, ArticleFirst, EconLit, GEOBASE, MEDLINE …

Abstract Patron-driven acquisition (PDA), also known as demand-driven acquisition, patron-
initiated purchasing, or books on demand, allows patrons to select and purchase books for …

We report on an investigation into people's behaviors on information search tasks,
specifically the relation between eye movement patterns and task characteristics. We …