Austin R. Ward

2025

Designing Search Engine Result Pages for Immersive Virtual Reality: Insights from Eye-Tracking and User Perception Data.

Austin R. Ward|Bogeum Choi|Robert Capra

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

Don't Forget This: Augmenting Results with Event-Aware Search.

Hugo O. Sousa|Austin R. Ward|Omar Alonso

Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2025, Hannover, Germany, March 10-14, 2025

2024

Empowering Shoppers with Event-focused Search.

Austin R. Ward|Omar Alonso

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2024, Boise, ID, USA, October 21-25, 2024

2023

The Influences of a Knowledge Representation Tool on Searchers with Varying Cognitive Abilities.

Bogeum Choi|Jaime Arguello|Robert Capra|Austin R. Ward

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2023 Volume 41 Issue 1

Thinking inside the box: An evaluation of a novel search-assisting tool for supporting (meta)cognition during exploratory search.

Yuan Li|Anita Crescenzi|Austin R. Ward|Robert G. Capra

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 2023 Volume 74 Issue 9

Eyes on Immersive Search: Eye-Tracking Study of Search Engine Result Pages in Immersive Virtual Environments.

Austin R. Ward|Bogeum Choi|Robert Capra

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2023, Austin, TX, USA, March 19-23, 2023

Searching for Products in Virtual Reality: Understanding the Impact of Context and Result Presentation on User Experience.

Austin R. Ward|Sandeep Avula|Hao Fei Cheng|Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar|Vanessa Murdock|Eugene Agichtein

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023

2021

OrgBox: A Knowledge Representation Tool to Support Complex Search Tasks.

Bogeum Choi|Jaime Arguello|Robert G. Capra|Austin R. Ward

CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Canberra, ACT, Australia, March 14-19, 2021

An Analysis of Information Types and Cognitive Activities Involved in Cross-session Search.

Yuan Li|Austin R. Ward|Rob Capra

CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Canberra, ACT, Australia, March 14-19, 2021

Supporting Metacognition during Exploratory Search with the OrgBox.

Anita Crescenzi|Austin R. Ward|Yuan Li|Rob Capra

SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

OrgBox: Supporting Cognitive and Metacognitive Activities During Exploratory Search.

Austin R. Ward|Robert Capra

SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

Interacting with Information in Immersive Virtual Environments.

Austin R. Ward|Yiyin Gu|Sandeep Avula|Praneeth Chakravarthula

SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

2020

The Effects of Task Complexity on the Use of Different Types of Information in a Search Assistance Tool.

Bogeum Choi|Austin R. Ward|Yuan Li|Jaime Arguello|Robert Capra

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2020 Volume 38 Issue 1

Immersive Search: Interactive Information Retrieval in Three-Dimensional Space.

CHIIR '20: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 14-18, 2020.

Immersive Search: Using Virtual Reality to Examine How a Third Dimension Impacts the Searching Process.

Austin R. Ward|Robert G. Capra

Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020