[Webpub] TALK: Friday 4-3-09 The Web Changes Everything:

[Lisa C. Mayer]

The Web Changes Everything: How Dynamic Content Affects the Way People  
Find Online
HCI Seminar Series spring 2009
Speaker: Jaime Teevan
Speaker Affiliation: Microsoft Research
Host: Rob Miller
Host Affiliation: MIT CSAIL

Date: 4-3-2009
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Refreshments: 1:45 PM
Location: Patil/Kiva Seminar Room 32-G449

When you visit a colleague’s Web page, do the new papers she’s posted  
jump
out at you?  When you return to your favorite Web news site, is it  
easy to
find the front page article you saw yesterday?  The Web is a dynamic,
ever-changing collection of information, and the changes can affect,  
drive,
and interfere with people’s information seeking activities.  This talk  
will
explore how and why people revisit Web content that has changed, and
illustrate how understanding the association between change and  
revisitation
might improve browser, crawler, and search engine design.

Speaker Biography:
Jaime Teevan is a researcher in the Context, Learning, and User  
Experience
for Search (CLUES) group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington.   
Dr.
Teevan’s research interests lie at the intersection of human-computer
interaction, information retrieval, and machine learning.  For her  
doctoral
thesis, she developed the Re:Search Engine, a system that helps people  
return
to information they have previously seen in a dynamic Web  
environment.  She
has also explored personalized search, the learning of probabilistic  
retrieval
models from textual data, and techniques to combine search and  
navigation.
She received a Ph.D. and S.M. from MIT and a B.S. in Computer Science  
from
Yale University.

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For more information please contact: Michael Bernstein, (617) 253-0452,msbernst at mit.edu

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