What are you looking for?: an eye-tracking study of information usage in web search

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SERP-level Disambiguation from Search Results

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User Interaction in Mobile Web Search

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The Query is Just the Beginning

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Die Präsentation der Suchergebnisse

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Postgraduate student success rate with free-form information searching.

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Considerations for Eye Tracking Experiments in Information RetrievalPreprint

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Effects of SERP Information on Academic Search Behaviours

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Navigational Searching and User Treatments

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In a Hurry: How Time Constraints and the Presentation of Web Search Results Affect User Behaviour and Experience

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Preface

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Searching Personal Collections

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Query-driven Search Functionality

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Authors’ Biography/Index

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Introduction

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