Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "User Study"
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Evaluating Entity Relationship Recommenders in a Complex Information Retrieval Context
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)Information Retrieval, as a field, has long subscribed to an orthodox evaluation approach known as the Cranfield paradigm. This approach and the assumptions that underpin it have been essential to building the traditional ... -
Formulating Complex Queries Using Templates
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)While many users have relatively general information needs, users who are familiar with a certain topic may have more specific or complex information needs. Such users already have some knowledge of a subject and its ... -
Health Misinformation in Search and Social Media
(University of Waterloo, 2019-11-28)People increasingly rely on the Internet in order to search for and share health-related information. Indeed, searching for and sharing information about medical treatments are among the most frequent uses of online data. ... -
Personal Email Spam Filtering with Minimal User Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)This thesis investigates ways to reduce or eliminate the necessity of user input to learning-based personal email spam filters. Personal spam filters have been shown in previous studies to yield superior effectiveness, ... -
The Positive and Negative Influence of Search Results on People's Decisions about the Efficacy of Medical Treatments
(ACM, 2017-10-01)People regularly use web search engines to investigate the efficacy of medical treatments. Search results can contain documents that present incorrect information that contradicts current established medical understanding ... -
Privacy and Security Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviours: Informing Future Tool Design
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)Usable privacy and security has become a significant area of interest for many people in both industry and academia. A better understanding of the knowledge and motivation is an important factor in the design of privacy ... -
A Study of Immediate Requery Behavior in Search
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2018-03-11)When search results fail to satisfy users' information needs, users often reformulate their search query in the hopes of receiving better results. In many cases, users immediately requery without clicking on any search ... -
Understanding Clinicians’ Requirements, Perception and Acceptance of Clinical Decision Support Systems: User Study for Implementation of Sepsis Best Practice Advisory in General Paediatric Care
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-11)Clinicians are faced with ever-increasing patient data as well as medical evidence which are all required for them to make the best possible decisions. Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) are widely used to support ...