Web searchers often exhibit directed search behaviors such as navigating to a particular
Website. However, in many circumstances they exhibit different behaviors that involve …

Re-using research resources is essential for advancing knowledge and developing
repeatable, empirically solid experiments in scientific fields, including interactive information …

Current research on web search has focused on optimizing and evaluating single queries.
However, a significant fraction of user queries are part of more complex tasks [20] which …

Web search is increasingly used to satisfy complex, exploratory information goals. Exploring
and synthesizing information into knowledge can be slow and cognitively demanding due to …

When exploring a new domain through web search, people often struggle to articulate
queries because they lack domain-specific language and well-defined informational goals …

In this paper, we study how users interact with a search assistance tool while completing
tasks of varying complexity. We designed a novel tool referred to as the search guide (SG) …

While a clear distinction is established between simple lookup tasks and complex
exploratory tasks, few studies have documented the differences between complex lookup …

While great strides have been made in the field of search and recommendation, there are
still challenges and opportunities to address information access issues that involve solving …

This article investigates how to improve the effectiveness of voice search systems. Earlier
research found that participants employed voice search much less frequently than keyboard …

Consider a user who submits a search query" Shakira" having a specific search goal in mind
(such as her age) but at the same time willing to explore information for other entities related …