Elaine Toms

Orcid: 0000-0003-0677-689X

Affiliations:
  • University of Sheffield, UK


According to our database1, Elaine Toms authored at least 102 papers between 1996 and 2023.

Collaborative distances:
  • Dijkstra number2 of four.
  • Erdős number3 of four.

Timeline

Legend:

Book 
In proceedings 
Article 
PhD thesis 
Dataset
Other 

Links

Online presence:

On csauthors.net:

Bibliography

2023
Untangling Cognitive Processes Underlying Knowledge Work.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2023

2019
Representing search tasks in an information use environment: a case of English primary schools.
J. Documentation, 2019

How the information use environment influences search activities.
J. Documentation, 2019

Using classroom talk to understand children's search processes for tasks with different goals.
Inf. Res., 2019

2018
Can User Behaviour Sequences Reflect Perceived Novelty?
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2018

2017
Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, ISBN: 978-3-031-02312-5, 2017

Understanding Engagement through Search Behaviour.
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2017

2016
Interacting with archival finding aids.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2016

Search Behaviour Before and After Search Success.
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Search as Learning, 2016

The Relationship Between User Perception and User Behaviour in Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016

SEADE Workshop Proposal - The Serendipity Factor: Evaluating the Affordances of Digital Environments.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2016

Information work in information science research and practice.
Proceedings of the Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology, 2016

Research perspectives on serendipity and information encountering.
Proceedings of the Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology, 2016

2015
Report on the First Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks.
SIGIR Forum, 2015

Investigating serendipity: How it unfolds and what may influence it.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2015

Examination of relationships among serendipity, the environment, and individual differences.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2015

Complex Tools for Complex Tasks.
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks co-located with the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), 2015

First Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks.
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks co-located with the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), 2015

Supporting Complex Search Tasks - ECIR 2015 Workshop.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2015

Overview of the CLEF 2015 Social Book Search Lab.
Proceedings of the Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2015

Overview of the SBS 2015 Interactive Track.
Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2015, 2015

2014
CLEF 2014: Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction.
SIGIR Forum, 2014

Evaluation methodologies in information retrieval dagstuhl seminar 13441.
SIGIR Forum, 2014

Untangling search task complexity and difficulty in the context of interactive information retrieval studies.
J. Documentation, 2014

Development and assessment of the content validity of a scale to measure how well a digital environment facilitates serendipity.
Inf. Res., 2014

The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning.
Inf. Manag., 2014

Categorising search sessions: some insights from human judgments.
Proceedings of the Fifth Information Interaction in Context Symposium, 2014

2013
How is a search system used in work task completion?
J. Inf. Sci., 2013

Examining the generalizability of the User Engagement Scale (UES) in exploratory search.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2013

A Pluggable Work-bench for Creating Interactive IR Interfaces.
Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, 2013

The CHiC Interactive Task (CHiCi) at CLEF2013.
Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2013 Conference , 2013

Cultural Heritage in CLEF (CHiC) 2013.
Proceedings of the Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization, 2013

Sheffield Submission to the CHiC Interactive Task: Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage.
Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2013 Conference , 2013

Building a Common Framework for IIR Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization, 2013

2012
PROMISE retreat report prospects and opportunities for information access evaluation.
SIGIR Forum, 2012

User-Oriented Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Information Retrieval Meets Information Visualization, 2012

2011
Understanding how webcasts are used as sources of information.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2011

Measuring the dimensions of serendipity in digital environments.
Inf. Res., 2011

Encouraging Serendipity in Interactive Systems.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2011, 2011

Group participation in the search process?
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, 2011

"Would You Trust Your IR System to Choose Your Date?" Re-thinking IR Evaluation in the 21st Century.
Proceedings of the Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, 2011

The serendipity quotient.
Proceedings of the Bridging the Gulf: Communication and Information in Society, Technology, and Work, 2011

Task-based information searching and retrieval.
Proceedings of the Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval., 2011

2010
The development and evaluation of a survey to measure user engagement.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2010

Is there a universal instrument for measuring interactive information retrieval?: the case of the user engagement scale.
Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context Symposium, 2010

The process of serendipity in knowledge work.
Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context Symposium, 2010

The effect of cognitive style and curiosity on information task multitasking.
Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context Symposium, 2010

Evaluating hypertext: the quantitative-qualitative quandary.
Proceedings of the HT'10, 2010

Examining Group Work: Implications for the Digital Library as Sharium.
Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2010

2009
Image use within the work task model: Images as information and illustration.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2009

wikiSearch: enabling interactivity in search.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Predicting stopping behaviour: a preliminary analysis.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

wikiSearch - From Access to Use.
Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2009

Chance Encounters in the Digital Library.
Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2009

Diverse approaches to "tasks" in information science: Conceptual and methodological insights.
Proceedings of the Thriving on Diversity: Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World, 2009

Online Information Seeking: Understanding Individual Differences and Search Contexts.
Proceedings of the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2009

2008
Understanding the information and communication technology needs of the e-humanist.
J. Documentation, 2008

What is user engagement? A conceptual framework for defining user engagement with technology.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2008

Information displays for managing shared files.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology, 2008

Mapping collaborative information processes to stages of group development.
Proceedings of the People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People, 2008

Fishing in query pools for task representations.
Proceedings of the People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People, 2008

Integrating the group within models of information processes.
Proceedings of the People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People, 2008

Developing and evaluating a reliable measure of user engagement.
Proceedings of the People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People, 2008

Using Wikipedia to make academic abstracts more readable.
Proceedings of the People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People, 2008

2007
Consumers' allocation of cognitive resources in web-based search: an exploratory study.
Int. J. Electron. Bus., 2007

How consumers search for health information.
Health Informatics J., 2007

Task Effects on Interactive Search: The Query Factor.
Proceedings of the Focused Access to XML Documents, 2007

Towards the use of genre to improve search in digital libraries: Where do we go from here?
Proceedings of the Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science, 2007

2006
Enterprise search behaviour of software engineers.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

Measuring the acceptable word error rate of machine-generated webcast transcripts.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

Towards genre classification for IR in the workplace.
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Interaction in Context, 2006

The effect of speech recognition accuracy rates on the usefulness and usability of webcast archives.
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006

2005
Developing a protocol for bioinformatics analysis: An integrated information behavior and task analysis approach.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2005

Modeling task-genre relationships for IR in the workplace.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2005

Assessing tools for use with webcasts.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2005

Searching for Relevance in the Relevance of Search.
Proceedings of the Context: Nature, Impact, and Role, 2005

User strategies for handling information tasks in webcasts.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2005

Evaluating success in search systems.
Proceedings of the Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together, 2005

Engagement as process in human-computer interactions.
Proceedings of the Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together, 2005

Modeling the information behaviour of software engineers using a work - task framework.
Proceedings of the Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together, 2005

2004
Measuring user perceptions of Web site reputation.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2004

WiIRE: the Web interactive information retrieval experimentation system prototype.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2004

Measuring the user's experience with digital libraries.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004

2003
Discovering and structuring information flow among bioinformatics resources.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28, 2003

The effect of task domain on search.
Proceedings of the 2003 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research, 2003

The role of context in search: Examining the effect of subject domain on the search interface.
Proceedings of the Humanizing Information Technology: From Ideas to Bits and Back, 2003

Priming the query specification process.
Proceedings of the Humanizing Information Technology: From Ideas to Bits and Back, 2003

Understanding the brevity of Web queries.
Proceedings of the Humanizing Information Technology: From Ideas to Bits and Back, 2003

2002
"I spent 1 ½ hours sifting through one large box. ...": Diaries as information behavior of the archives user: Lessons learned.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2002

Information interaction: Providing a framework for information architecture.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2002

Augmenting and Limiting Search Queries.
Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, 2002

Opportunistic acquisition of information: The new frontier for information user studies. Sponsored by SIG USE.
Proceedings of the Information, Connetcitons and Community, 2002

Capturing, modeling and utilizing bioinformatics expertise.
Proceedings of the Information, Connetcitons and Community, 2002

2001
Selecting Versus Describing: A Preliminary Analysis of the Efficacy of Categories in Exploring the Web.
Proceedings of The Tenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2001

An approach to search for the digital library.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2001

Measuring the reputation of web sites: a preliminary exploration.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2001

2000
Understanding and facilitating the browsing of electronic text.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2000

Serendipitous Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the First DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on Information Seeking, 2000

1999
The impact of information architecture on academic web site usability.
Electron. Libr., 1999

Genre as Interface Metaphor: Exploiting Form and Function in Digital Environments.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-32), 1999

1996
The Effectiveness of the Electronic City Metaphor for Organizing the Menus of Free-Nets.
J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 1996

Exploring the Information Landscape.
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Common Ground, 1996


  Loading...