We briefly describe our approach to the query suggestion task at the CLEF 2017 Dynamic Search Lab. The general research idea of our contribution is to evaluate query suggestions in form of keyqueries for clicked documents. A keyquery for a document set D is a query that returns the documents from D among the top-k ranks. Our query suggestion approach derives keyqueries for pairs of documents pr...

THERAPID DEVELOPMENT OF networked information resources and services has not been matched with ongoing assessments of how well these resources and services meet user needs. This article stresses the importance of developing and implementing a range of user-based evaluation techniques as a means of assessing the usefulness of the services, and planning for future services. A number of user-based...

In the 10 years since its inception, NetWellness (NW) has grown from a regional demonstration project to service the health information needs of an international audience. We present data regarding NW's growth, usage statistics, data regarding the contributions of our volunteer faculty, representative feedback of visitors, and future plans for this successful service.

Accurate wind information is of fundamental importance to the delivery of benefits from future air traffic concepts. A Wind Information Analysis Framework is described in this paper and its utility for assessing wind information needs for a four-dimensional trajectory based operations application is demonstrated.

In a real-world setting, questions are not asked in isolation, but rather in a cohesive manner that involves a sequence of related questions to meet user’s information needs. The capability to interpret and answer questions based on context is important. In this paper, we discuss the role of discourse modeling in context question answering. In particular, we motivate a semantic-rich discourse r...

Game metrics are an approach to understanding games and gameplay by analyzing and visualizing information collected from players in playtests. This paper proposes that another source of metrics is the game itself, and that not all information needs to (or ought to) come from empirical playtests. I discuss seven strategies for extracting information from games, and discuss how the information re...

In the recent years, mobile technologies have effectively catered for the information needs of the agriculturestakeholders. This study intends to see how to introduce mobile learning within the domain of agriculture so as to facilitate learning process, and supporting farmers’ decision making. A preliminary survey has been conducted as a component of the pilot study to find out the subjects (i....

Crisis management training software is gaining researchers’ as well as practitioners’ interest. In order to truly support organizations it is important that such software responds to actual user needs. The aim of this study is to compare existing initiative described in research with the needs of the users and to identify possible research directions for forthcoming studies. The literature revi...

Two different approaches can increase the accessibility of digital educational materials: content that has been built with the widest possible set of users in mind (universal design), or content that has been designed in such a way that it can be personalised to individual user needs and preferences (personalised design). This paper outlines a number of approaches that could be used to evaluate...