Henry A Feild from 84 Cedar St, Wenham, MA 01984, age 40, Phone: 9784682741

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Systems And Methods For Providing Search Assistance Technologies Based On User Self-Efficacy And Search Frustration
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US Patent:

20120166467, Jun 28, 2012
Filed:

Dec 23, 2010
Appl. No.:

12/978261
Inventors:

Henry Feild - Amherst MA, US
Omer Emre Velipasaoglu - San Francisco CA, US
Benoit Dumoulin - Palo Alto CA, US
Elizabeth F. Churchill - San Francisco CA, US
Rosemary Jones - Cambridge MA, US
Jeffrey Bardzell - Bloomington IN, US
International Classification:

G06F 17/30
US Classification:

707768, 707E17014
Abstract:

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing search assistance technologies based on a user's search self-efficacy and search frustration. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a search query from a user. The method then calculates the user's search self-efficacy and calculates the user's frustration with the current information task. The method then identifies a plurality of search assistance technologies based on the user's search self-efficacy and frustration. Finally, the method provides a search engine results page comprising a plurality of search results and the identified plurality of search assistance technologies.

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Henry Feild

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I'm a computer science grad student at UMass Amherst working on my PhD. My area is information retrieval and my current focuses are (1) search personalization and privacy and (2) book search.