ACM SIGIR Forum
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The loquacious user: a document-independent source of terms for query expansion
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Evaluating implicit feedback models using searcher simulations
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)
Using controlled query generation to evaluate blind relevance feedback algorithms
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Find-similar: similarity browsing as a search tool
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using searcher simulations to redesign a polyrepresentative implicit feedback interface
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Twenty-five years of end-user searching, Part 1: Research findings
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Building simulated queries for known-item topics: an analysis using six european languages
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A probability ranking principle for interactive information retrieval
Information Retrieval
User adaptation: good results from poor systems
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Some(what) grand challenges for information retrieval
ACM SIGIR Forum
Portfolio theory of information retrieval
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A comparison of query and term suggestion features for interactive searching
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query side evaluation: an empirical analysis of effectiveness and effort
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
AIRS '09 Proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium on Information Retrieval Technology
Interactive information retrieval
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Predicting searcher frustration
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Distribution of cognitive load in Web search
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
FACeTOR: cost-driven exploration of faceted query results
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Time drives interaction: simulating sessions in diverse searching environments
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Adaptive diversification of recommendation results via latent factor portfolio
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using eye-tracking with dynamic areas of interest for analyzing interactive information retrieval
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Modeling user variance in time-biased gain
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
User-Oriented evaluation in IR
PROMISE'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Information Retrieval Meets Information Visualization
How query cost affects search behavior
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Modeling behavioral factors ininteractive information retrieval
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
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Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essentially, the search process can be viewed as a combination of inputs (queries and assessments) which are used to "produce" output (relevance). Under this view, it is possible to adapt microeconomic theory to analyze and understand the dynamics of Interactive Information Retrieval. In this paper, we approach the search process as an economics problem and conduct extensive simulations on TREC test collections analyzing various combinations of inputs in the "production" of relevance. The analysis reveals that the total Cumulative Gain (output) obtained during the course of a search session is functionally related to querying and assessing (inputs), and this can be characterized mathematically by the Cobbs-Douglas production function. Further analysis using cost models, that are grounded using cognitive load as the cost, reveals which search strategies minimize the cost of interaction for a given level of output. This paper demonstrates how economics can be applied to formally model the search process. This development establishes the theoretical foundations of Interactive Information Retrieval, providing numerous directions for empirical experimentation that are motivated directly from theory.