This paper reports our investigation of differences in users' behavior between difficult and easy search tasks, as well as how these differences vary with different types of tasks. We also report how behavioral predictors of task difficulty vary across task types. In addition, we explored how whole-
Predicting task difficulty for different task types
β Scribed by Liu, Jingjing (author);Gwizdka, Jacek (author);Liu, Chang (author);Belkin, Nicholas J. (author)
- Book ID
- 102511186
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 260 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-7870
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