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[i2]Ginar Santika Niwanputri, Elaine Toms, Andrew Simpson:
Untangling Cognitive Processes Underlying Knowledge Work. CoRR abs/2407.17488 (2024)- 2023
- [c69]Ginar Santika Niwanputri
, Elaine Toms, Andrew Simpson:
Untangling Cognitive Processes Underlying Knowledge Work. CHIIR 2023: 401-405
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [j31]Sophie A. Rutter, Paul D. Clough, Elaine G. Toms:
Using classroom talk to understand children's search processes for tasks with different goals. Inf. Res. 24(1) (2019) - [j30]Sophie A. Rutter, Paul David Clough, Elaine G. Toms:
How the information use environment influences search activities. J. Documentation 75(2): 435-455 (2019) - [j29]Sophie A. Rutter, Elaine G. Toms, Paul David Clough:
Representing search tasks in an information use environment: a case of English primary schools. J. Documentation 75(6): 1370-1395 (2019) - 2018
- [c68]Mengdie Zhuang, Elaine G. Toms, Gianluca Demartini:
Can User Behaviour Sequences Reflect Perceived Novelty? CIKM 2018: 1507-1510 - 2017
- [b1]Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms:
Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments. Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2017, ISBN 978-3-031-01184-9 - [c67]Mengdie Zhuang, Gianluca Demartini, Elaine G. Toms:
Understanding Engagement through Search Behaviour. CIKM 2017: 1957-1966 - 2016
- [j28]Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms:
Interacting with archival finding aids. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 67(4): 994-1008 (2016) - [c66]Sanda Erdelez, Jannica Heinström, Stephann Makri, Lennart Björneborn, Jamshid Beheshti, Elaine Toms, Naresh Kumar Agarwal:
Research perspectives on serendipity and information encountering. ASIST 2016: 1-5 - [c65]Isto Huvila, Annemaree Lloyd, John M. Budd, Carole L. Palmer, Elaine Toms:
Information work in information science research and practice. ASIST 2016: 1-5 - [c64]Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms, Anabel Quan-Haase:
SEADE Workshop Proposal - The Serendipity Factor: Evaluating the Affordances of Digital Environments. CHIIR 2016: 341-343 - [c63]Mengdie Zhuang, Elaine G. Toms, Gianluca Demartini:
The Relationship Between User Perception and User Behaviour in Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation. ECIR 2016: 293-305 - [c62]Mengdie Zhuang, Elaine G. Toms, Gianluca Demartini:
Search Behaviour Before and After Search Success. SAL@SIGIR 2016 - 2015
- [j27]Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms, E. Kevin Kelloway:
Examination of relationships among serendipity, the environment, and individual differences. Inf. Process. Manag. 51(4): 391-412 (2015) - [j26]Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms:
Investigating serendipity: How it unfolds and what may influence it. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 66(7): 1463-1476 (2015) - [j25]Maria Gäde, Mark M. Hall, Hugo C. Huurdeman, Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen, Mette Skov, Elaine Toms, David Walsh:
Report on the First Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks. SIGIR Forum 49(1): 50-56 (2015) - [c61]Maria Gäde, Mark Michael Hall, Hugo C. Huurdeman, Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen, Mette Skov, Elaine Toms, David Walsh:
Overview of the SBS 2015 Interactive Track. CLEF (Working Notes) 2015 - [c60]Marijn Koolen, Toine Bogers, Maria Gäde, Mark M. Hall, Hugo C. Huurdeman, Jaap Kamps, Mette Skov, Elaine Toms, David Walsh:
Overview of the CLEF 2015 Social Book Search Lab. CLEF 2015: 545-564 - [c59]Maria Gäde, Mark M. Hall, Hugo C. Huurdeman, Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen, Mette Skov, Elaine Toms, David Walsh:
Supporting Complex Search Tasks - ECIR 2015 Workshop. ECIR 2015: 841-844 - [c58]Maria Gäde, Mark Michael Hall, Hugo C. Huurdeman, Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen, Mette Skov, Elaine Toms, David Walsh:
First Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks. SCST@ECIR 2015 - [c57]Elaine Toms:
Complex Tools for Complex Tasks. SCST@ECIR 2015 - [e4]Maria Gäde, Mark Michael Hall, Hugo C. Huurdeman, Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen, Mette Skov, Elaine Toms, David Walsh:
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks co-located with the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), Vienna, Austria, March 29, 2015. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1338, CEUR-WS.org 2015 [contents] - 2014
- [j24]Helen Ashman, Tim J. Brailsford, Alexandra I. Cristea, Quan Z. Sheng, Craig D. Stewart, Elaine G. Toms, Vincent P. Wade:
The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning. Inf. Manag. 51(6): 819-832 (2014) - [j23]Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms, E. Kevin Kelloway:
Development and assessment of the content validity of a scale to measure how well a digital environment facilitates serendipity. Inf. Res. 19(3) (2014) - [j22]Barbara M. Wildemuth, Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms:
Untangling search task complexity and difficulty in the context of interactive information retrieval studies. J. Documentation 70(6): 1118-1140 (2014) - [j21]Maristella Agosti, Norbert Fuhr, Elaine G. Toms, Pertti Vakkari:
Evaluation methodologies in information retrieval dagstuhl seminar 13441. SIGIR Forum 48(1): 36-41 (2014) - [j20]Linda Cappellato, Paul D. Clough, Nicola Ferro, Mark M. Hall, Martin Halvey, Allan Hanbury, Evangelos Kanoulas, Wessel Kraaij, Mihai Lupu, Mark Sanderson, Elaine Toms, Robert Villa:
CLEF 2014: Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. SIGIR Forum 48(2): 56-62 (2014) - [c56]Tony Russell-Rose, Paul D. Clough, Elaine G. Toms:
Categorising search sessions: some insights from human judgments. IIiX 2014: 251-254 - [e3]Evangelos Kanoulas, Mihai Lupu, Paul D. Clough, Mark Sanderson, Mark M. Hall, Allan Hanbury, Elaine G. Toms:
Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014, Sheffield, UK, September 15-18, 2014. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8685, Springer 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-11381-4 [contents] - 2013
- [j19]Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms:
Examining the generalizability of the User Engagement Scale (UES) in exploratory search. Inf. Process. Manag. 49(5): 1092-1107 (2013) - [j18]Elaine G. Toms, Robert Villa, Lori McCay-Peet:
How is a search system used in work task completion? J. Inf. Sci. 39(1): 15-25 (2013) - [c55]Mark Michael Hall, Elaine G. Toms:
Building a Common Framework for IIR Evaluation. CLEF 2013: 17-28 - [c54]Mark M. Hall, Robert Villa, Sophie A. Rutter, Daniel Bell, Paul D. Clough, Elaine G. Toms:
Sheffield Submission to the CHiC Interactive Task: Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage. CLEF (Working Notes) 2013 - [c53]Vivien Petras, Toine Bogers, Elaine G. Toms, Mark M. Hall, Jacques Savoy, Piotr Malak, Adam Pawlowski, Nicola Ferro, Ivano Masiero:
Cultural Heritage in CLEF (CHiC) 2013. CLEF 2013: 192-211 - [c52]Elaine G. Toms, Mark M. Hall:
The CHiC Interactive Task (CHiCi) at CLEF2013. CLEF (Working Notes) 2013 - [c51]Mark M. Hall, Spyros Katsaris, Elaine G. Toms:
A Pluggable Work-bench for Creating Interactive IR Interfaces. EuroHCIR 2013: 35-38 - [i1]Maristella Agosti, Norbert Fuhr, Elaine G. Toms, Pertti Vakkari:
Evaluation Methodologies in Information Retrieval (Dagstuhl Seminar 13441). Dagstuhl Reports 3(10): 92-126 (2013) - 2012
- [j17]Maristella Agosti, Richard Berendsen, Toine Bogers, Martin Braschler, Paul Buitelaar, Khalid Choukri, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Pamela Forner, Allan Hanbury, Karin Friberg Heppin, Preben Hansen, Anni Järvelin, Birger Larsen, Mihai Lupu, Ivano Masiero, Henning Müller, Simone Peruzzo, Vivien Petras, Florina Piroi, Maarten de Rijke, Giuseppe Santucci, Gianmaria Silvello, Elaine G. Toms:
PROMISE retreat report prospects and opportunities for information access evaluation. SIGIR Forum 46(2): 60-84 (2012) - [c50]Elaine G. Toms:
User-Oriented Information Retrieval. PROMISE Winter School 2012: 76-85 - 2011
- [j16]Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms:
Measuring the dimensions of serendipity in digital environments. Inf. Res. 16(3) (2011) - [j15]Christine Dufour, Joan C. Bartlett, Elaine G. Toms:
Understanding how webcasts are used as sources of information. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 62(2): 343-362 (2011) - [c49]Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms:
The serendipity quotient. ASIST 2011: 1-4 - [c48]Elaine G. Toms:
"Would You Trust Your IR System to Choose Your Date?" Re-thinking IR Evaluation in the 21st Century. CLEF 2011: 1 - [c47]Sandra Toze, Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms:
Group participation in the search process? CTS 2011: 69-76 - [c46]Stephann Makri, Elaine G. Toms, Lori McCay-Peet, Ann Blandford:
Encouraging Serendipity in Interactive Systems. INTERACT (4) 2011: 728-729 - [p1]Elaine G. Toms:
Task-based information searching and retrieval. Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval 2011: 43-60 - 2010
- [j14]Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms:
The development and evaluation of a survey to measure user engagement. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 61(1): 50-69 (2010) - [c45]Sandra Toze, Elaine G. Toms:
Examining Group Work: Implications for the Digital Library as Sharium. ECDL 2010: 282-293 - [c44]Mark H. Chignell, Peter Brusilovsky, Steve Szigeti, Elaine G. Toms:
Evaluating hypertext: the quantitative-qualitative quandary. HT 2010: 211-212 - [c43]Angela Manyangara, Elaine G. Toms:
The effect of cognitive style and curiosity on information task multitasking. IIiX 2010: 45-54 - [c42]Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms:
Is there a universal instrument for measuring interactive information retrieval?: the case of the user engagement scale. IIiX 2010: 335-340 - [c41]Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms:
The process of serendipity in knowledge work. IIiX 2010: 377-382 - [e2]Mark H. Chignell, Elaine G. Toms:
HT'10, Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 13-16, 2010. ACM 2010, ISBN 978-1-4503-0041-4 [contents]
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [j13]Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms:
Image use within the work task model: Images as information and illustration. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 60(12): 2416-2429 (2009) - [c40]Maureen E. Hupfer, Brian Detlor, Elaine G. Toms, Valerie J. Trifts:
Online Information Seeking: Understanding Individual Differences and Search Contexts. AMCIS 2009: 670 - [c39]Eric M. Meyers, Theresa D. Anderson, Katriina Byström, Luanne Freund, Elaine Toms:
Diverse approaches to "tasks" in information science: Conceptual and methodological insights. ASIST 2009: 1-6 - [c38]Elaine G. Toms, Lori McCay-Peet, Tayze Mackenzie:
wikiSearch - From Access to Use. ECDL 2009: 27-38 - [c37]Elaine G. Toms, Lori McCay-Peet:
Chance Encounters in the Digital Library. ECDL 2009: 192-202 - [c36]Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund:
Predicting stopping behaviour: a preliminary analysis. SIGIR 2009: 750-751 - [c35]Elaine G. Toms, Tayze Mackenzie, Chris Jordan, Sam Hall:
wikiSearch: enabling interactivity in search. SIGIR 2009: 843 - 2008
- [j12]Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms:
What is user engagement? A conceptual framework for defining user engagement with technology. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 59(6): 938-955 (2008) - [j11]Elaine G. Toms, Heather L. O'Brien:
Understanding the information and communication technology needs of the e-humanist. J. Documentation 64(1): 102-130 (2008) - [c34]Chris Jordan, Carolyn R. Watters, Elaine Toms:
Using Wikipedia to make academic abstracts more readable. ASIST 2008: 1-2 - [c33]Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms, E. Kevin Kelloway, Elizabeth Kelley:
Developing and evaluating a reliable measure of user engagement. ASIST 2008: 1-10 - [c32]Elaine G. Toms, Sandra Toze, Elizabeth Kelley:
Integrating the group within models of information processes. ASIST 2008: 1-12 - [c31]Elaine G. Toms, Sandra Toze, Heather O'Brien, Luanne Freund, Chris Jordan:
Fishing in query pools for task representations. ASIST 2008: 1-3 - [c30]Sandra Toze, Elaine G. Toms:
Mapping collaborative information processes to stages of group development. ASIST 2008: 1-3 - [c29]Tara Whalen, Elaine G. Toms, James Blustein:
Information displays for managing shared files. CHIMIT 2008: 5 - 2007
- [j10]Elaine G. Toms, Celeste Latter:
How consumers search for health information. Health Informatics J. 13(3): 223-235 (2007) - [j9]Valerie J. Trifts, Elaine G. Toms:
Consumers' allocation of cognitive resources in web-based search: an exploratory study. Int. J. Electron. Bus. 5(6): 561-575 (2007) - [c28]Mark A. Rosso, Stephanie W. Haas, Andrew Dillon, Barbara H. Kwasnik, Marina Santini, Elaine Toms:
Towards the use of genre to improve search in digital libraries: Where do we go from here? ASIST 2007: 1-5 - [c27]Elaine G. Toms, Heather L. O'Brien, Tayze Mackenzie, Chris Jordan, Luanne Freund, Sandra Toze, Emilie Dawe, Alexandra MacNutt:
Task Effects on Interactive Search: The Query Factor. INEX 2007: 359-372 - [e1]Edie M. Rasmussen, Ray R. Larson, Elaine G. Toms, Shigeo Sugimoto:
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 18-23, 2007, Proceedings. ACM 2007, ISBN 978-1-59593-644-8 [contents] - 2006
- [c26]Cosmin Munteanu, Ronald Baecker, Gerald Penn, Elaine G. Toms, David James:
The effect of speech recognition accuracy rates on the usefulness and usability of webcast archives. CHI 2006: 493-502 - [c25]Luanne Freund, Charles L. A. Clarke, Elaine G. Toms:
Towards genre classification for IR in the workplace. IIiX 2006: 30-36 - [c24]Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn, Ronald Baecker, Elaine G. Toms, David James:
Measuring the acceptable word error rate of machine-generated webcast transcripts. INTERSPEECH 2006 - [c23]Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms:
Enterprise search behaviour of software engineers. SIGIR 2006: 645-646 - 2005
- [j8]Joan C. Bartlett, Elaine G. Toms:
Developing a protocol for bioinformatics analysis: An integrated information behavior and task analysis approach. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 56(5): 469-482 (2005) - [c22]Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms, Julie Waterhouse:
Modeling the information behaviour of software engineers using a work - task framework. ASIST 2005 - [c21]Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms:
Engagement as process in human-computer interactions. ASIST 2005 - [c20]Edie Rasmussen, Elaine G. Toms, Bernard J. Jansen, Gheorghe Muresan:
Evaluating success in search systems. ASIST 2005 - [c19]Christine Dufour, Elaine G. Toms, Jonathan Lewis, Ronald Baecker:
User strategies for handling information tasks in webcasts. CHI Extended Abstracts 2005: 1343-1346 - [c18]Elaine G. Toms, Heather L. O'Brien, Richard W. Kopak, Luanne Freund:
Searching for Relevance in the Relevance of Search. CoLIS 2005: 59-78 - [c17]Elaine G. Toms, Christine Dufour, Jonathan Lewis, Ronald Baecker:
Assessing tools for use with webcasts. JCDL 2005: 79-88 - [c16]Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms, Charles L. A. Clarke:
Modeling task-genre relationships for IR in the workplace. SIGIR 2005: 441-448 - 2004
- [j7]Elaine G. Toms, Adam R. Taves:
Measuring user perceptions of Web site reputation. Inf. Process. Manag. 40(2): 291-317 (2004) - [j6]Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund, Cara Li:
WiIRE: the Web interactive information retrieval experimentation system prototype. Inf. Process. Manag. 40(4): 655-675 (2004) - [c15]Elaine G. Toms, Christine Dufour, Susan Hesemeier:
Measuring the user's experience with digital libraries. JCDL 2004: 51-52 - 2003
- [c14]Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund:
Priming the query specification process. ASIST 2003: 381-388 - [c13]Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms:
Understanding the brevity of Web queries. ASIST 2003: 517-518 - [c12]Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund, Joan C. Bartlett, Rick Kopak:
The role of context in search: Examining the effect of subject domain on the search interface. ASIST 2003: 543-544 - [c11]Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund, Richard W. Kopak, Joan C. Bartlett:
The effect of task domain on search. CASCON 2003: 303-312 - [c10]Joan C. Bartlett, Elaine G. Toms:
Discovering and structuring information flow among bioinformatics resources. SIGIR 2003: 411-412 - 2002
- [j5]Elaine G. Toms:
Information interaction: Providing a framework for information architecture. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 53(10): 855-862 (2002) - [j4]Elaine G. Toms, Wendy Duff:
"I spent 1 ½ hours sifting through one large box. ...": Diaries as information behavior of the archives user: Lessons learned. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 53(14): 1232-1238 (2002) - [c9]Sanda Erdelez, Elaine G. Toms, Kevin S. Rioux, Makiko Miwa:
Opportunistic acquisition of information: The new frontier for information user studies. Sponsored by SIG USE. ASIST 2002: 521-522 - [c8]Joan C. Bartlett, Elaine G. Toms:
Capturing, modeling and utilizing bioinformatics expertise. ASIST 2002: 564-565 - [c7]Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund, Cara Li:
Augmenting and Limiting Search Queries. TREC 2002 - 2001
- [c6]Greg Keast, Elaine G. Toms, Joan M. Cherry:
Measuring the reputation of web sites: a preliminary exploration. JCDL 2001: 77-78 - [c5]Elaine G. Toms, Joan C. Bartlett:
An approach to search for the digital library. JCDL 2001: 341-342 - [c4]Elaine G. Toms, Richard W. Kopak, Joan C. Bartlett, Luanne Freund:
Selecting Versus Describing: A Preliminary Analysis of the Efficacy of Categories in Exploring the Web. TREC 2001 - 2000
- [j3]Elaine G. Toms:
Understanding and facilitating the browsing of electronic text. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. 52(3): 423-452 (2000) - [c3]Elaine G. Toms:
Serendipitous Information Retrieval. DELOS 2000
1990 – 1999
- 1999
- [j2]Shelley Gullikson, Ruth Blades, Marc Bragdon, Shelley McKibbon, Marnie Sparling, Elaine G. Toms:
The impact of information architecture on academic web site usability. Electron. Libr. 17(5): 293-304 (1999) - [c2]Elaine G. Toms, D. Grant Campbell:
Genre as Interface Metaphor: Exploiting Form and Function in Digital Environments. HICSS 1999 - 1996
- [j1]Elaine G. Toms, Mark T. Kinnucan:
The Effectiveness of the Electronic City Metaphor for Organizing the Menus of Free-Nets. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 47(12): 919-931 (1996) - [c1]Elaine G. Toms:
Exploring the Information Landscape. CHI Conference Companion 1996: 63-64
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