This paper describes a new digital user study tool called Mobile Probes. Mobile Probes arose from a need to develop contextual and dynamic self-documenting tools for studying peop...
Although text categorization is a burgeoning area of IR research, readily available test collections in this field are surprisingly scarce. We describe a methodology and system (...
Recent research has had some success using the length of time a user displays a document in their web browser as implicit feedback for document preference. However, most studies h...
Increasingly, Internet-level distributed systems are oriented as much toward information access as they are toward computation. From computer-supported collaborative work to peer-...
Michael L. Scott, DeQing Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
This paper describes the initial results of a qualitative field study of the work required to review and approve the content on government agency web sites. The study analyzes con...