Exploring the Web with reconnaissance agents
Communications of the ACM
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information search and re-access strategies of experienced web users
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
A large scale study of wireless search behavior: Google mobile search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A field study characterizing Web-based information-seeking tasks
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Investigating behavioral variability in web search
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Information re-retrieval: repeat queries in Yahoo's logs
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
It's on my other computer!: computing with multiple devices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
SearchBar: a search-centric web history for task resumption and information re-finding
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploring multi-session web tasks
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Deciphering mobile search patterns: a study of Yahoo! mobile search queries
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Context-aware query suggestion by mining click-through and session data
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
A faceted approach to conceptualizing tasks in information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Beyond the session timeout: automatic hierarchical segmentation of search topics in query logs
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Understanding the intent behind mobile information needs
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Working Overtime: Patterns of Smartphone and PC Usage in the Day of an Information Worker
Pervasive '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing
Good abandonment in mobile and PC internet search
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Exploring Cross-Device Web Use on PCs and Mobile Devices
INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part I
An analysis framework for search sequences
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Mobile taskflow in context: a screenshot study of smartphone usage
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Do you want to take notes?: identifying research missions in Yahoo! search pad
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Personalizing information retrieval for multi-session tasks: the roles of task stage and task type
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Studying trailfinding algorithms for enhanced web search
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Predicting short-term interests using activity-based search context
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Modeling and analysis of cross-session search tasks
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Understanding the importance of location, time, and people in mobile local search behavior
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Behavior-driven clustering of queries into topics
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Modeling the impact of short- and long-term behavior on search personalization
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Search, interrupted: understanding and predicting search task continuation
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Slow Search: Information Retrieval without Time Constraints
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
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Web searchers frequently transition from desktop computers and laptops to mobile devices, and vice versa. Little is known about the nature of cross-device search tasks, yet they represent an important opportunity for search engines to help their users, especially those on the target (post-switch) device. For example, the search engine could save the current session and re-instate it post switch, or it could capitalize on down-time between devices to proactively re-trieve content on behalf of the searcher. In this paper, we present a log-based study to define and characterize cross-device search be-havior and predict the resumption of cross-device tasks. Using data from a large commercial search engine, we show that there are dis-cernible and noteworthy patterns of search behavior associated with device transitions. We also develop learned models for predicting task resumption on the target device using behavioral, topical, geo-spatial, and temporal features. Our findings show that our models can attain strong prediction accuracy and have direct implications for the development of tools to help people search more effectively in a multi-device world.