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 …

8.1 The World Wide Web has radically altered the way we share knowledge, by lowering the
barrier to publishing and accessing documents as part of a global information space …

On the Web, users typically forage for information by navigating from page to page along
Web links. Their surfing patterns or actions are guided by their information needs …

The Internet offers readers the unique opportunity to access rich information scenarios, but
doing so requires the use of advanced digital reading skills. Examples of such scenarios are …

There has been recent interests in studying the" goal" behind a user's Web query, so that
this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's results. Previous studies …

This paper presents scented widgets, graphical user interface controls enhanced with
embedded visualizations that facilitate navigation in information spaces. We describe design …

Accessing the Web from mobile handheld devices has become increasingly common.
However, accomplishing that task remains challenging mainly due to the physical …

Navigating information spaces is an essential part of our everyday lives, and in order to
design efficient and user-friendly information systems, it is important to understand how …

With the exponential growth of the available information on the World Wide Web, a
traditional search engine, even if based on sophisticated document indexing algorithms, has …

Rapid growth of the volume of interactive questions available to the students of modern E‐
Learning courses placed the problem of personalized guidance on the agenda of E …