Este libro se centra en los usuarios humanos de los motores de búsqueda y la herramienta
que utilizan para interactuar con ellos: la interfaz de usuario de búsqueda. El alcance …

Personalization of information retrieval (PIR) is aimed at tailoring a search toward individual
users and user groups by taking account of additional information about users besides their …

Users of online search engines often find it difficult to express their need for information in
the form of a query. However, if the user can identify examples of the kind of documents they …

The aim of this article is threefold:(1) to give a summary of empirical results reported earlier
on relations between students 'problem stages in the course of writing their research …

This article presents the research findings of a study on task complexity and information‐
seeking activities in real‐life work tasks. The focus was on perceived task complexity, which …

This study examines the facets and patterns of multiple Web query reformulations with a
focus on reformulation sequences. Based on IR interaction models, it was presumed that …

The objective of this study is to analyse how changes in relevance criteria are related to
changes in problem stages during the task performance process. Relevance is understood …

Information seeking does not occur in a vacuum but invariably is motivated by some wider
task. It is well accepted that to understand information seeking we must understand the task …

The study analyses how students' growing understanding of the topic and search
experience were related to their choice of search tactics and terms while preparing a …

This study explores the relationships between work task and interactive information search
behavior. Work task was conceptualized based on a faceted classification of task. An …