Elaine G. Toms

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1996-2019
Publications (10 Years): 9

Top Topics

Evaluation Methodologies

Information Retrieval

Top Venues

J. Documentation

Inf. Process. Manag.

Publications

Sophie A. Rutter, Paul David Clough, Elaine G. Toms
How the information use environment influences search activities. J. Documentation 75 (2) (2019)
Sophie A. Rutter, Elaine G. Toms, Paul David Clough
Representing search tasks in an information use environment: a case of English primary schools. J. Documentation 75 (6) (2019)
Sophie A. Rutter, Paul D. Clough, Elaine G. Toms
Using classroom talk to understand children's search processes for tasks with different goals. Inf. Res. 24 (1) (2019)
Mengdie Zhuang, Elaine G. Toms, Gianluca Demartini
Can User Behaviour Sequences Reflect Perceived Novelty? CIKM (2018)
Mengdie Zhuang, Gianluca Demartini, Elaine G. Toms
Understanding Engagement through Search Behaviour. CIKM (2017)
Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms
Interacting with archival finding aids. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 67 (4) (2016)
Mengdie Zhuang, Elaine G. Toms, Gianluca Demartini
The Relationship Between User Perception and User Behaviour in Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation. ECIR (2016)
Mengdie Zhuang, Elaine G. Toms, Gianluca Demartini
Search Behaviour Before and After Search Success. SAL@SIGIR (2016)
Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms, Anabel Quan-Haase
SEADE Workshop Proposal - The Serendipity Factor: Evaluating the Affordances of Digital Environments. CHIIR (2016)
Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms
Investigating serendipity: How it unfolds and what may influence it. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 66 (7) (2015)
Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms, E. Kevin Kelloway
Examination of relationships among serendipity, the environment, and individual differences. Inf. Process. Manag. 51 (4) (2015)
Maristella Agosti, Norbert Fuhr, Elaine G. Toms, Pertti Vakkari
Evaluation methodologies in information retrieval dagstuhl seminar 13441. SIGIR Forum 48 (1) (2014)
Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms, E. Kevin Kelloway
Development and assessment of the content validity of a scale to measure how well a digital environment facilitates serendipity. Inf. Res. 19 (3) (2014)
Tony Russell-Rose, Paul D. Clough, Elaine G. Toms
Categorising search sessions: some insights from human judgments. IIiX (2014)
Barbara M. Wildemuth, Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms
Untangling search task complexity and difficulty in the context of interactive information retrieval studies. J. Documentation 70 (6) (2014)
Helen Ashman, Tim J. Brailsford, Alexandra I. Cristea, Quan Z. Sheng, Craig D. Stewart, Elaine G. Toms, Vincent P. Wade
The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning. Inf. Manag. 51 (6) (2014)
Mark Michael Hall, Elaine G. Toms
Building a Common Framework for IIR Evaluation. CLEF (2013)
Maristella Agosti, Norbert Fuhr, Elaine G. Toms, Pertti Vakkari
Evaluation Methodologies in Information Retrieval (Dagstuhl Seminar 13441). Dagstuhl Reports 3 (10) (2013)
Elaine G. Toms, Mark M. Hall
The CHiC Interactive Task (CHiCi) at CLEF2013. CLEF (Working Notes) (2013)
Vivien Petras, Toine Bogers, Elaine G. Toms, Mark M. Hall, Jacques Savoy, Piotr Malak, Adam Pawlowski, Nicola Ferro, Ivano Masiero
Cultural Heritage in CLEF (CHiC) 2013. CLEF (2013)
Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms
Examining the generalizability of the User Engagement Scale (UES) in exploratory search. Inf. Process. Manag. 49 (5) (2013)
Mark M. Hall, Spyros Katsaris, Elaine G. Toms
A Pluggable Work-bench for Creating Interactive IR Interfaces. EuroHCIR (2013)
Mark M. Hall, Robert Villa, Sophie A. Rutter, Daniel Bell, Paul D. Clough, Elaine G. Toms
Sheffield Submission to the CHiC Interactive Task: Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage. CLEF (Working Notes) (2013)
Elaine G. Toms, Robert Villa, Lori McCay-Peet
How is a search system used in work task completion? J. Inf. Sci. 39 (1) (2013)
Elaine G. Toms
User-Oriented Information Retrieval. PROMISE Winter School (2012)
Maristella Agosti, Richard Berendsen, Toine Bogers, Martin Braschler, Paul Buitelaar, Khalid Choukri, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Pamela Forner, Allan Hanbury, Karin Friberg Heppin, Preben Hansen, Anni Järvelin, Birger Larsen, Mihai Lupu, Ivano Masiero, Henning Müller, Simone Peruzzo, Vivien Petras, Florina Piroi, Maarten de Rijke, Giuseppe Santucci, Gianmaria Silvello, Elaine G. Toms
PROMISE retreat report prospects and opportunities for information access evaluation. SIGIR Forum 46 (2) (2012)
Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms
Measuring the dimensions of serendipity in digital environments. Inf. Res. 16 (3) (2011)
Stephann Makri, Elaine G. Toms, Lori McCay-Peet, Ann Blandford
Encouraging Serendipity in Interactive Systems. INTERACT (4) (2011)
Sandra Toze, Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms
Group participation in the search process? CTS (2011)
Elaine G. Toms
"Would You Trust Your IR System to Choose Your Date?" Re-thinking IR Evaluation in the 21st Century. CLEF (2011)
Christine Dufour, Joan C. Bartlett, Elaine G. Toms
Understanding how webcasts are used as sources of information. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 62 (2) (2011)
Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms
The serendipity quotient. ASIST (2011)
Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms
Is there a universal instrument for measuring interactive information retrieval?: the case of the user engagement scale. IIiX (2010)
Mark H. Chignell, Peter Brusilovsky, Steve Szigeti, Elaine G. Toms
Evaluating hypertext: the quantitative-qualitative quandary. HT (2010)
Sandra Toze, Elaine G. Toms
Examining Group Work: Implications for the Digital Library as Sharium. ECDL (2010)
Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms
The development and evaluation of a survey to measure user engagement. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 61 (1) (2010)
Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms
The process of serendipity in knowledge work. IIiX (2010)
Angela Manyangara, Elaine G. Toms
The effect of cognitive style and curiosity on information task multitasking. IIiX (2010)
Maureen E. Hupfer, Brian Detlor, Elaine G. Toms, Valerie J. Trifts
Online Information Seeking: Understanding Individual Differences and Search Contexts. AMCIS (2009)
Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms
Image use within the work task model: Images as information and illustration. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 60 (12) (2009)
Elaine G. Toms, Tayze Mackenzie, Chris Jordan, Sam Hall
wikiSearch: enabling interactivity in search. SIGIR (2009)
Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund
Predicting stopping behaviour: a preliminary analysis. SIGIR (2009)
Elaine G. Toms, Lori McCay-Peet
Chance Encounters in the Digital Library. ECDL (2009)
Elaine G. Toms, Lori McCay-Peet, Tayze Mackenzie
wikiSearch - From Access to Use. ECDL (2009)
Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms
What is user engagement? A conceptual framework for defining user engagement with technology. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 59 (6) (2008)
Tara Whalen, Elaine G. Toms, James Blustein
Information displays for managing shared files. CHIMIT (2008)
Elaine G. Toms, Heather L. O'Brien
Understanding the information and communication technology needs of the e-humanist. J. Documentation 64 (1) (2008)
Sandra Toze, Elaine G. Toms
Mapping collaborative information processes to stages of group development. ASIST (2008)
Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms, E. Kevin Kelloway, Elizabeth Kelley
Developing and evaluating a reliable measure of user engagement. ASIST (2008)
Elaine G. Toms, Sandra Toze, Elizabeth Kelley
Integrating the group within models of information processes. ASIST (2008)
Elaine G. Toms, Sandra Toze, Heather O'Brien, Luanne Freund, Chris Jordan
Fishing in query pools for task representations. ASIST (2008)
Valerie J. Trifts, Elaine G. Toms
Consumers' allocation of cognitive resources in web-based search: an exploratory study. Int. J. Electron. Bus. 5 (6) (2007)
Elaine G. Toms, Heather L. O'Brien, Tayze Mackenzie, Chris Jordan, Luanne Freund, Sandra Toze, Emilie Dawe, Alexandra MacNutt
Task Effects on Interactive Search: The Query Factor. INEX (2007)
Elaine G. Toms, Celeste Latter
How consumers search for health information. Health Informatics J. 13 (3) (2007)
Cosmin Munteanu, Ronald Baecker, Gerald Penn, Elaine G. Toms, David James
The effect of speech recognition accuracy rates on the usefulness and usability of webcast archives. CHI (2006)
Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn, Ronald Baecker, Elaine G. Toms, David James
Measuring the acceptable word error rate of machine-generated webcast transcripts. INTERSPEECH (2006)
Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms
Enterprise search behaviour of software engineers. SIGIR (2006)
Luanne Freund, Charles L. A. Clarke, Elaine G. Toms
Towards genre classification for IR in the workplace. IIiX (2006)
Christine Dufour, Elaine G. Toms, Jonathan Lewis, Ronald Baecker
User strategies for handling information tasks in webcasts. CHI Extended Abstracts (2005)
Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms, Charles L. A. Clarke
Modeling task-genre relationships for IR in the workplace. SIGIR (2005)
Elaine G. Toms, Heather L. O'Brien, Richard W. Kopak, Luanne Freund
Searching for Relevance in the Relevance of Search. CoLIS (2005)
Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms, Julie Waterhouse
Modeling the information behaviour of software engineers using a work - task framework. ASIST (2005)
Elaine G. Toms, Christine Dufour, Jonathan Lewis, Ronald Baecker
Assessing tools for use with webcasts. JCDL (2005)
Joan C. Bartlett, Elaine G. Toms
Developing a protocol for bioinformatics analysis: An integrated information behavior and task analysis approach. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 56 (5) (2005)
Edie Rasmussen, Elaine G. Toms, Bernard J. Jansen, Gheorghe Muresan
Evaluating success in search systems. ASIST (2005)
Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms
Engagement as process in human-computer interactions. ASIST (2005)
Elaine G. Toms, Christine Dufour, Susan Hesemeier
Measuring the user's experience with digital libraries. JCDL (2004)
Elaine G. Toms, Adam R. Taves
Measuring user perceptions of Web site reputation. Inf. Process. Manag. 40 (2) (2004)
Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund, Cara Li
WiIRE: the Web interactive information retrieval experimentation system prototype. Inf. Process. Manag. 40 (4) (2004)
Joan C. Bartlett, Elaine G. Toms
Discovering and structuring information flow among bioinformatics resources. SIGIR (2003)
Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund
Priming the query specification process. ASIST (2003)
Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund, Joan C. Bartlett, Rick Kopak
The role of context in search: Examining the effect of subject domain on the search interface. ASIST (2003)
Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms
Understanding the brevity of Web queries. ASIST (2003)
Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund, Richard W. Kopak, Joan C. Bartlett
The effect of task domain on search. CASCON (2003)
Elaine G. Toms, Wendy Duff
"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. 53 (14) (2002)
Elaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund, Cara Li
Augmenting and Limiting Search Queries. TREC (2002)
Sanda Erdelez, Elaine G. Toms, Kevin S. Rioux, Makiko Miwa
Opportunistic acquisition of information: The new frontier for information user studies. Sponsored by SIG USE. ASIST (2002)
Joan C. Bartlett, Elaine G. Toms
Capturing, modeling and utilizing bioinformatics expertise. ASIST (2002)
Elaine G. Toms
Information interaction: Providing a framework for information architecture. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 53 (10) (2002)
Greg Keast, Elaine G. Toms, Joan M. Cherry
Measuring the reputation of web sites: a preliminary exploration. JCDL (2001)
Elaine G. Toms, Joan C. Bartlett
An approach to search for the digital library. JCDL (2001)
Elaine G. Toms, Richard W. Kopak, Joan C. Bartlett, Luanne Freund
Selecting Versus Describing: A Preliminary Analysis of the Efficacy of Categories in Exploring the Web. TREC (2001)
Elaine G. Toms
Serendipitous Information Retrieval. DELOS (2000)
Elaine G. Toms
Understanding and facilitating the browsing of electronic text. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. 52 (3) (2000)
Elaine G. Toms, D. Grant Campbell
Genre as Interface Metaphor: Exploiting Form and Function in Digital Environments. HICSS (1999)
Shelley Gullikson, Ruth Blades, Marc Bragdon, Shelley McKibbon, Marnie Sparling, Elaine G. Toms
The impact of information architecture on academic web site usability. Electron. Libr. 17 (5) (1999)
Elaine G. Toms, Mark T. Kinnucan
The Effectiveness of the Electronic City Metaphor for Organizing the Menus of Free-Nets. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 47 (12) (1996)
Elaine G. Toms
Exploring the Information Landscape. CHI Conference Companion (1996)