Bringing order to the Web: automatically categorizing search results
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Helping people find what they don't know
Communications of the ACM
Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Optimizing search by showing results in context
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Instructional Use of Learning Objects
Instructional Use of Learning Objects
How User Perceptions Influence Software Use
IEEE Software
Reusable learning objects: a survey of LOM-based repositories
Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Query length in interactive information retrieval
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Reuse learning objects through LOM and XML
OOPSLA '03 Companion of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Online Education Using Learning Objects
Online Education Using Learning Objects
Classifying and coding online actions
Social Science Computer Review - Special issue: Sociology and computing
Dynamic assembly of learning objects
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
Findex: search result categories help users when document ranking fails
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An analysis of web searching by European AlltheWeb.com users
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Optimizing the number of search result categories
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
You can lead a horse to water: teacher development and use of digital library resources
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Modeling search engine effectiveness for federated search
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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
Which user interaction for cross-language information retrieval? Design issues and reflections
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A study of results overlap and uniqueness among major web search engines
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Building learner's ontologies to assist personalized search of learning objects
ICEC '06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Electronic commerce: The new e-commerce: innovations for conquering current barriers, obstacles and limitations to conducting successful business on the internet
A Management Framework to Recommend and Review Learning Objects in a Web-based Learning Environment
ICALT '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
Use of contextualized attention metadata for ranking and recommending learning objects
CAMA '06 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Contextualized attention metadata: collecting, managing and exploiting of rich usage information
Effects of structure and interaction style on distinct search tasks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Investigating the querying and browsing behavior of advanced search engine users
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Enhancing web search by promoting multiple search engine use
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
How people recall, recognize, and reuse search results
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Discovering and using groups to improve personalized search
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
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
Evaluating web search using task completion time
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Search User Interfaces
Effects of popularity and quality on the usage of query suggestions during information search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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The Web holds a great quantity of material that can be used to enhance classroom instruction. However, it is not easy to retrieve this material with the search engines currently available. This study produced a specialized search assistant based on Google that significantly increases the number of instances in which teachers find the desired learning objects as compared to using this popular public search engine directly. Success in finding learning objects by study participants went from 80% using Google alone to 96% when using our search assistant in one scenario and, in another scenario, from a 40% success rate with Google alone to 66% with our assistant. This specialized search assistant implements features such as bilingual search and term suggestion which were requested by teacher participants to help improve their searches. Study participants evaluated the specialized search assistant and found it significantly easier to use and more useful than the popular search engine for the purpose of finding learning objects.