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Search task difficulty: the expected vs. the reflected
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Search task difficulty: the expected vs. the reflected

Jingjing Liu and Nicholas Belkin
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval, pp.1183-1184
SIGIR '11
07/24/2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010110

Abstract

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We report findings on how the user's perception of task difficulty changes before and after searching for information to solve tasks. We found that while in one type of task, the dependent task, this did not change, in another, the parallel task, it did. The findings have implications on designing systems that can provide assistance to users with their search and task solving strategies.

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