@inproceedings{573282b417a8447fb89f64776a5d69fc,
title = "Influence of timeline and named-entity components on user engagement",
abstract = "Nowadays, successful applications are those which contain features that captivate and engage users. Using an interactive news retrieval system as a use case, in this paper we study the effect of timeline and named-entity components on user engagement. This is in contrast with previous studies where the importance of these components were studied from a retrieval effectiveness point of view. Our experimental results show significant improvements in user engagement when named-entity and timeline components were installed. Further, we investigate if we can predict user-centred metrics through user's interaction with the system. Results show that we can successfully learn a model that predicts all dimensions of user engagement and whether users will like the system or not. These findings might steer systems that apply a more personalised user experience, tailored to the user's preferences.",
keywords = "retrieval effectiveness, retrieval system, user engagement",
author = "Yashar Moshfeghi and Michael Matthews and Roi Blanco and Jose, {Joemon M.}",
year = "2013",
month = mar,
day = "12",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_26",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642369735",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "305--317",
editor = "Pavel Serdyukov and Pavel Braslavski and Kuznetsov, {Sergei O.} and Jaap Kamps and Stefan R{\"u}ger and Eugene Agichtein and Ilya Segalovich and Emine Yilmaz",
booktitle = "Advances in Information Retrieval",
note = "35th European conference on IR Research, ECIR 2013 ; Conference date: 24-03-2013 Through 27-03-2013",
}