Significant amounts of information available today contain references to places on earth.
Traditionally such information has been held as structured data and was the concern of …

Although voice assistants are increasingly being adopted by older adults, we lack empirical
research on how they interact with these devices for health information seeking. Also, prior …

Web Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) are complex responses to queries, containing
many heterogeneous result elements (web results, advertisements, and specialised" …

Click signal has been widely used for designing and evaluating interactive information
systems, which is taken as the indicator of user preference. However, click signal does not …

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

Evaluation metrics play an important role in the batch evaluation of IR systems. Based on a
user model that describes how users interact with the rank list, an evaluation metric is …

The use of offline effectiveness metrics is one of the cornerstones of evaluation in
information retrieval. Static resources that include test collections and sets of topics, the …

How users think, behave, and make decisions when interacting with information retrieval
(IR) systems is a fundamental research problem in the area of Interactive IR. There is …

Cognitive biases are systematic deviations in thinking that lead to irrational judgments and
problematic decision-making, extensively studied across various fields. Recently, large …

Pre-adoption expectations often serve as an implicit reference point in users' evaluation of
information systems and are closely associated with their goals of interactions, behaviors …