Ian Ruthven

Orcid: 0000-0001-6669-5376

According to our database1, Ian Ruthven authored at least 134 papers between 1995 and 2024.

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2024
Uncharted Territory: Understanding Exploratory Search Behaviours in Literature Reviews.
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2024

The concept of information need and its operationalization in CHIIR research.
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2024

2023
The value of digital and physical library services in UK public libraries and why they are not interchangeable.
J. Libr. Inf. Sci., December, 2023

Delivering services in the new normal: Recording the experiences of UK public library staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
J. Libr. Inf. Sci., September, 2023

Informational features of WhatsApp in everyday life in Madrid: An exploratory study.
J. Inf. Sci., February, 2023

The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Public Libraries in the UK: Findings from a National Study.
Public Libr. Q., 2023

Contemporary spiritual seeking: understanding information interactions in contemplation and spirituality.
J. Documentation, 2023

Can you feel it? The information behaviour of creative DJs.
J. Documentation, 2023

Information overload: a concept analysis.
J. Documentation, 2023

Exploring older people's challenges on online banking/finance systems: Early findings.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2023

2022
An information behavior theory of transitions.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2022

"She Seems More Human": Understanding Twitter Users' Credibility Assessments of Dementia-Related Information.
Proceedings of the Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future - 17th International Conference, iConference 2022, Virtual Event, February 28, 2022

Searching the Literature: An Analysis of an Exploratory Search Task.
Proceedings of the CHIIR '22: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Regensburg, Germany, March 14, 2022

Information Intermediaries and Information Resilience: Working to Support Marginalised Groups.
Proceedings of the Crisis, Transition, Resilience: Re-imagining an information resilient society, 2022

2021
Engaging interaction and long-term engagement with WhatsApp in an everyday life context: exploratory study.
J. Documentation, 2021

Resonance and the experience of relevance.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2021

People and places: Bridging the information gaps in refugee integration.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2021

Untangling the Concept of Task in Information Seeking and Retrieval.
Proceedings of the ICTIR '21: The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2021

Fighting Fires and Powering Steam Locomotives: Distribution of Control and Its Role in Social Interaction at Tangible Interactive Museum Exhibits.
Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

2020
Dynamic aspects of relevance: differences in users' relevance criteria between selecting and viewing videos during leisure searches.
Inf. Res., 2020

Information need: Introduction to the special issue.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2020

2019
Editorial Note for Special Issue on the Evaluation of Digital Cultural Resources - January 2019.
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 2019

The MUSETECH Model: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for Museum Technology.
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 2019

Information behaviors in disadvantaged and dependent circumstances and the role of information intermediaries.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2019

The language of information need: Differentiating conscious and formalized information needs.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2019

The Information Needs Matrix: A navigational guide for refugee integration.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2019

Making Meaning: A Focus for Information Interactions Research.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2019

2018
Users' relevance criteria for video in leisure contexts.
J. Documentation, 2018

Isolated, overwhelmed, and worried: Young first-time mothers asking for information and support online.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2018

Relationships, environment, health and development: The information needs expressed online by young first-time mothers.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2018

2017
Overview of Special Issue.
SIGIR Forum, 2017

Developing Information Literacy in Dependent and Disadvantaged Circumstances: A Transitional Approach in the Digital Health Context.
Proceedings of the Information Literacy in the Workplace - 5th European Conference, 2017

Investigating the information gaps in refugee integration.
Proceedings of the Diversity of Engagement: Connecting People and Information in the Physical and Virtual Worlds, 2017

2016
Sharing "happy" information.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2016

2015
The everyday life information seeking behaviours of first-time mothers.
J. Documentation, 2015

Sharing happy information: responses and self-portrayal.
Inf. Res., 2015

2014
Relevance behaviour in TREC.
J. Documentation, 2014

Using internet groups in situations of information poverty: Topics and information needs.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2014

You have e-mail, what happens next? Tracking the eyes for genre.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2014

2013
A classification scheme for content analyses of YouTube video comments.
J. Documentation, 2013

2012
Evaluation of an interactive topic detection and tracking interface.
J. Inf. Sci., 2012

Homelessness and access to the informational mainstream.
J. Documentation, 2012

An eye-tracking approach to the analysis of relevance judgments on the Web: The case of Google search engine.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2012

Grieving online: the use of search engines in times of grief and bereavement.
Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context: 2012, 2012

Looking for genre: the use of structural features during search tasks with Wikipedia.
Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context: 2012, 2012

Graphical representation and similarity measurement of relevance judgments on the web.
Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context: 2012, 2012

Enriching Children's Experiences During and After a Museum Visit.
Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2012

2011
Improving social bookmark search using personalised latent variable language models.
Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2011

Escaping Information Poverty through Internet Newsgroups.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2011

What Makes Re-finding Information Difficult? A Study of Email Re-finding.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2011

Bayesian latent variable models for collaborative item rating prediction.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

The fun semantic differential scales.
Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children, 2011

Evaluating Real Patent Retrieval Effectiveness.
Proceedings of the Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval, 2011

Information Retrieval in Context.
Proceedings of the Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval, 2011

2010
Towards accessible search systems.
SIGIR Forum, 2010

Why did you pick that? Visualising relevance criteria in exploratory search.
Int. J. Digit. Libr., 2010

First impressions: how search engine results contextualise digital identities.
Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context Symposium, 2010

The emotional impact of search tasks.
Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context Symposium, 2010

What eyes can tell about the use of relevance criteria during predictive relevance judgment?
Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context Symposium, 2010

Interactive Search Interfaces for Young Children - The PuppyIR Approach.
Proceedings of the ICALT 2010, 2010

A New Focus on End Users: Eye-Tracking Analysis for Digital Libraries.
Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2010

Relevance in Technicolor.
Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2010

Enabling Interactive Query Expansion through Eliciting the Potential Effect of Expansion Terms.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2010

Tripartite Hidden Topic Models for Personalised Tag Suggestion.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2010

Colouring the Dimensions of Relevance.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2010

Ranking social bookmarks using topic models.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2010

The use of relevance criteria during predictive judgment: An eye tracking approach.
Proceedings of the Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem, 2010

2009
The Evolution of Genre in Wikipedia.
J. Lang. Technol. Comput. Linguistics, 2009

On Understanding the Relationship Between Recollection and Refinding.
J. Digit. Inf., 2009

Folksonomic Tag Clouds as an Aid to Content Indexing
CoRR, 2009

Design of an Interface for Interactive Topic Detection and Tracking.
Proceedings of the Flexible Query Answering Systems, 8th International Conference, 2009

2008
Exploring memory in email refinding.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2008

30<sup>th</sup> European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008).
SIGIR Forum, 2008

Contextual factors affecting the utility of surrogates within exploratory search.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2008

Introduction to the special issue on evaluating interactive information retrieval systems.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2008

Evaluating epistemic uncertainty under incomplete assessments.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2008

Interactive information retrieval.
Annu. Rev. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2008

The context of the interface.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Interaction in Context, 2008

A Comparison of Named Entity Patterns from a User Analysis and a System Analysis.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval , 2008

2007
Workshop on web information seeking and interaction.
SIGIR Forum, 2007

The relative effects of knowledge, interest and confidence in assessing relevance.
J. Documentation, 2007

Towards memory supporting personal information management tools.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2007

Introduction to special issue on contextual information retrieval systems.
Inf. Retr., 2007

Persuasive, Authorative and Topical Answers for Complex Question Answering.
Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2007

Modelling epistemic uncertainty in ir evaluation.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

Intra-assessor consistency in question answering.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

Towards task-based personal information management evaluations.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

A Retrieval Evaluation Methodology for Incomplete Relevance Assessments.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2007

2006
A study of interface support mechanisms for interactive information retrieval.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2006

An implicit feedback approach for interactive information retrieval.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2006

Contextual Information and Assessor Characteristics in Complex Question Answering.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2006

Examining assessor attributes at HARD 2005.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

The Effects on Topic Familiarity on Online Search Behaviour and Use of Relevance Criteria.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2006

2005
Evaluating implicit feedback models using searcher simulations.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2005

Using top-ranking sentences to facilitate effective information access.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2005

How users assess Web pages for information seeking.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2005

University of Strathclyde at TREC HARD.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2005

A study of factors affecting the utility of implicit relevance feedback.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2005

Evaluating User Studies in Information Access.
Proceedings of the Context: Nature, Impact, and Role, 2005

2004
Applied Informetrics for Information Retrieval Research.
J. Documentation, 2004

A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2004

Searcher's Assessments of Task Complexity for Web Searching.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2004

2003
A survey on the use of relevance feedback for information access systems.
Knowl. Eng. Rev., 2003

Incorporating user search behavior into relevance feedback.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2003

A task-oriented study on the influencing effects of query-biased summarisation in web searching.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2003

Using Top-Ranking Sentences for Web Search Result Presentation.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference - Posters, 2003

Searchers' criteria For assessing web pages.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28, 2003

Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28, 2003

Clustering the Information Space Using Top-Ranking Sentences: A Study of User Interaction.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '03: IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2003

Abductive retrieval for multimedia information seeking.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction: Universal Access in HCI: Inclusive Design in the Information Society, 2003

Clustering Top-Ranking Sentences for Information Access.
Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2003

An approach for implicitly detecting information needs.
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2003

2002
Using Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence to Combine Aspects of Information Use.
J. Intell. Inf. Syst., 2002

Combining and selecting characteristics of information use.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2002

Finding relevant documents using top ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative schemes.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002

A system using implicit feedback and top ranking sentences to help users find relevant web documents.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002

On the Use of Explanations as Mediating Device for Relevance Feedback.
Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2002

The Use of Implicit Evidence for Relevance Feedback in Web Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2002

The Accessibility Dimension for Structured Document Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2002

Building Bilingual Dictionaries from Parallel Web Documents.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2002

2001
Abduction, explanation and relevance feedback.
PhD thesis, 2001

Comparing Explicit and Implicit Feedback Techniques for Web Retrieval: TREC-10 Interactive Track Report.
Proceedings of The Tenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2001

Query-Based Web Page Summarisation: A Task-Oriented Evaluation.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2001

Empirical Investigations on Query Modification Using Abductive Explanations.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2001

Web Document Summarisation: A Task-oriented Evaluation.
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2001), 2001

2000
Incorporating Aspects of Information Use into Relevance Feedback.
Inf. Retr., 2000

Question Answering, Relevance Feedback and Summarisation: TREC-9 Interactive Track Report.
Proceedings of The Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, 2000

1999
A Framework for Investigating the Interaction in Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XI: 9th European-Japanese Conferences on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, 1999

Selective Relevance Feedback Using Term Characteristics.
Proceedings of the Digital Libraries: Interdisciplinary Concepts, 1999

1998
Representing and retrieving structured documents using the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence: modelling and evaluation.
J. Documentation, 1998

1997
A Model for Structured Document Retrieval: Empirical Investigations.
Proceedings of the Hypertext - Information Retrieval, 1997

1996
Report on the Glasgow IR group (glair4) submission.
Proceedings of The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference, 1996

1995
The Troubles with Using a Logical Model of IR on a Large Collection of Documents.
Proceedings of The Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 1995

An Analysis of the Use of Graphics for Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Final WorkShop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIRO'95), 1995


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