Note the highlight: incorporating active reading tools in a search as learning environment

N Roy, MV Torre, U Gadiraju, D Maxwell… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Active reading strategies---such as content annotations (through the use of highlighting and
note-taking, for example)---have been shown to yield improvements to a learner's …

Searching to learn with instructional scaffolding

A Câmara, N Roy, D Maxwell, C Hauff - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Web search engines are today considered to be the primary tool to assist and empower
learners in finding information relevant to their learning goals-be it learning something new …

[HTML][HTML] Eye-tracking studies of web search engines: A systematic literature review

A Strzelecki - Information, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper analyzes peer-reviewed empirical eye-tracking studies of behavior in web search
engines. A framework is created to examine the effectiveness of eye-tracking by drawing on …

Exploring users' learning gains within search sessions

N Roy, F Moraes, C Hauff - Proceedings of the 2020 conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The area of search as learning is concerned with the optimization of search systems (that is,
retrieval functions, user interface elements, etc.) for human learning---this is in contrast to the …

Does visual attention help? Towards better understanding and predicting users' good abandonment behavior in mobile search

D Wu, S Zhang - Library Hi Tech, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Good abandonment behavior refers to users obtaining direct answers via search
engine results pages (SERPs) without clicking any search result, which occurs commonly in …

Searching, learning, and subtopic ordering: A simulation-based analysis

A Câmara, D Maxwell, C Hauff - European Conference on Information …, 2022 - Springer
Complex search tasks—such as those from the Search as Learning (SAL) domain—often
result in users develo** an information need composed of several aspects. However …

The role of cognitive abilities and time spent on texts and videos in a multimodal searching as learning task

G Pardi, J von Hoyer, P Holtz, Y Kammerer - Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The present paper reports on a Searching as Learning (SAL) study, with 115 university
students learning about the formation of thunderstorms and lightning by searching the web …

Improving learning outcomes with gaze tracking and automatic question generation

R Syed, K Collins-Thompson, PN Bennett… - Proceedings of the web …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
As AI technology advances, it offers promising opportunities to improve educational
outcomes when integrated with an overall learning experience. We investigate forward …

Topic-independent modeling of user knowledge in informational search sessions

R Yu, R Tang, M Rokicki, U Gadiraju… - Information Retrieval …, 2021 - Springer
Web search is among the most frequent online activities. In this context, widespread
informational queries entail user intentions to obtain knowledge with respect to a particular …

Navigational and thematic exploration–exploitation trade-offs during web search: effects of prior domain knowledge, search contexts and strategies on search …

C Dosso, L Tamine, PV Paubel… - Behaviour & Information …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While a clear distinction is established between simple lookup tasks and complex
exploratory tasks, few studies have documented the differences between complex lookup …