Professor Elaine Toms

Books

• McCay-Peet L & Toms EG (2018) Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments. Springer International Publishing.

Journal articles

• Segura‐Rodas S, Griffin M, Simpson A & Toms E (2023) Knowledge Work Activities of a Systematic Review Task. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), 1116-1118.
• Rutter S, Toms E & Clough P (2019) Representing search tasks in an information use environment : a case of English primary schools. Journal of Documentation, 75(6), 1370-1395. View this article in WRRO
• Rutter S, Clough PD & Toms E (2019) Using classroom talk to understand children’s search processes for tasks with different goals. Information Research, 24(1). View this article in WRRO
• Rutter S, Clough PD & Toms E (2018) How the information use environment influences search activities: a case of English primary schools. Journal of Documentation. View this article in WRRO
• McCay-Peet L & Toms EG (2017) Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments. Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, 9(6), i-91.
• Huvila I, Lloyd A, Budd JM, Palmer C & Toms E (2016) Information work in information science research and practice. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 53(1), 1-5.
• Erdelez S, Heinström J, Makri S, Björneborn L, Beheshti J, Toms E & Agarwal NK (2016) Research perspectives on serendipity and information encountering. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 53(1), 1-5.
• Freund L & Toms EG (2016) Interacting with archival finding aids. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(4), 994-1008.
• McCay-Peet L & Toms EG (2015) Investigating serendipity: How it unfolds and what may influence it. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(7), 1463-1476. View this article in WRRO
• McCay-Peet L, Toms EG & Kelloway EK (2015) Examination of relationships among serendipity, the environment, and individual differences. Information Processing & Management, 51(4), 391-412.
• Gäde M, Hall M, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Koolen M, Skov M, Toms E & Walsh D (2015) Report on the First Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks. ACM SIGIR Forum, 49(1), 50-56.
• Cappellato L, Clough P, Ferro N, Hall M, Halvey M, Hanbury A, Kanoulas E, Kraaij W, Lupu M, Sanderson M , Toms E et al (2014) CLEF 2014. ACM SIGIR Forum, 48(2), 56-62.
• Wildemuth B, Freund L & G. Toms E (2014) Untangling search task complexity and difficulty in the context of interactive information retrieval studies. Journal of Documentation, 70(6), 1118-1140.
• McCay-Peet L, Toms EG & Kevin Kelloway E (2014) Development and assessment of the content validity of a scale to measure how well a digital environment facilitates serendipity. Information Research, 19(3).
• Agosti M, Fuhr N, Toms E & Vakkari P (2014) Evaluation methodologies in information retrieval dagstuhl seminar 13441. ACM SIGIR Forum, 48(1), 36-41.
• Ashman H, Brailsford T, Cristea AI, Sheng QZ, Stewart C, Toms EG & Wade V (2014) The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning. Information & Management, 51(6), 819-832.
• Petras V, Bogers T, Toms E, Hall M, Savoy J, Malak P, Pawłowski A, Ferro N & Masiero I (2013) Cultural heritage in CLEF (CHiC) 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8138 LNCS, 192-211.
• Toms EG (2013) User-oriented information retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7757 LNCS, 76-85.
• Hall MM & Toms E (2013) Building a common framework for IIR evaluation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8138 LNCS, 17-28.
• Toms EG, Villa R & McCay-Peet L (2013) How is a search system used in work task completion?. Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 15-25.
• Agosti M, Berendsen R, Bogers T, Braschler M, Buitelaar P, Choukri K, Maria Di Nunzio G, Ferro N, Forner P, Hanbury A , Heppin KF et al (2012) PROMISE retreat report prospects and opportunities for information access evaluation. ACM SIGIR Forum, 46(2), 60-84.
• O'Brien HL & Toms EG (2012) Examining the generalizability of the User Engagement Scale (UES) in exploratory search. Information Processing and Management.
• McCay-Peet L & Toms EG (2011) The serendipity quotient. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 48.
• Makri S, Toms EG, McCay-Peet L & Blandford A (2011) Encouraging serendipity in interactive systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6949 LNCS(PART 4), 728-729.
• Dufour C, Bartlett JC & Toms EG (2011) Understanding how webcasts are used as sources of information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(2), 343-362.
• Toze SL, McCay Peet L & Toms EG (2011) Group participation in the search process?. Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2011, 69-76.
• McCay-Peet L & Toms E (2011) Measuring the dimensions of serendipity in digital environments. Information Research, 16(3). View this article in WRRO
• Toms EG (2011) "Would you trust your IR system to choose your date?" Re-thinking IR evaluation in the 21st century. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6941 LNCS, 1.
• Chignell M, Brusilovsky P, Szigeti S & Toms E (2010) Evaluating hypertext: The qualitative-quantitative quandary. HT'10 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 211.
• O'Brien HL & Toms EG (2010) The development and evaluation of a survey to measure user engagement. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), 50-69. View this article in WRRO
• Chignell M & Toms E (2010) HT'10 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Foreword. HT'10 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia.
• McCay-Peet L & Toms EG (2010) The process of serendipity in knowledge work. IIiX 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 Information Interaction in Context Symposium, 377-380.
• Manyangara A & Toms EG (2010) The effect of cognitive style and Curiosity on information task multitasking. IIiX 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 Information Interaction in Context Symposium, 45-53.
• Toze S & Toms EG (2010) Examining group work: Implications for the digital library as sharium. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6273 LNCS, 282-293.
• Toms EG & O'Brien H (2009) Dalhousie University University of British Columbia. IEEE Computer, 42(3), 60-66.
• Meyers E, Anderson T, Byström K, Freund L & Toms E (2009) Diverse approaches to "tasks" in information science: Conceptual and methodological insights. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 46.
• McCay-Peet L & Toms E (2009) Image use within the work task model: Images as information and illustration. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(12), 2416-2429.
• Toms EG & McCay-Peet L (2009) Chance encounters in the digital library. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 5714 LNCS, 192-202.
• Toms EG & Freund L (2009) Predicting stopping behaviour: A preliminary analysis. Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, 750-751.
• Toms EG, McCay-Peet L & MacKenzie RT (2009) wikiSearch - From access to use. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 5714 LNCS, 27-38.
• Toms EG, Mackenzie T, Jordan C & Hall S (2009) wikiSearch: Enabling interactivity in search. Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, 844.
• O'Brien HL & Toms EG (2008) What is user engagement? A conceptual framework for defining user engagement with technology. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(6), 938-955. View this article in WRRO
• Toms EG & O'Brien HL (2008) Understanding the information and communication technology needs of the e-humanist. Journal of Documentation, 64(1), 102-130.
• Jordan C, Watters C & Toms E (2008) Using wikipedia to make academic abstracts more readable. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 45.
• Toms EG, O'Brien H, MacKenzie T, Jordan C, Freund L, Toze S, Dawe E & MacNutt A (2008) Task effects on interactive search: The query factor. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 4862 LNCS, 359-372.
• Toze SL & Toms EG (2008) Mapping collaborative information processes to stages of group development. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 45.
• Toms EG, Toze S & Kelley E (2008) Integrating the group within models of information processes. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 45.
• Toms EG, Toze S, O'Brien H, Freund L & Jordan C (2008) Fishing in query pools for task representations. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 45.
• O'Brien HL, Toms EG, Kelloway EK & Kelley E (2008) Developing and evaluating a reliable measure of user engagement. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 45.
• (2007) TOIS reviewers January 2006 through May 2007. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 25(4), 15-15.
• Toms EG & Latter C (2007) How consumers search for health information. Health Informatics Journal, 13(3), 223-235.
• Trifts VJ & Toms EG (2007) Consumers' allocation of cognitive resources in web-based search: an exploratory study.. International Journal of Electronic Business, 5, 561-575.
• Whalen T, Toms EG & Blustein J (2007) Information displays for managing shared files. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology, CHiMiT '08.
• Rosso MA, Haas SW, Dillon A, Kwasnik BH, Santini M & Toms E (2007) Towards the use of genre to improve search in digital libraries: Where do we go from here?. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 44.
• Freund L, Clarke CLA & Toms EG (2006) Towards genre classification for IR in the workplace. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 176, 30-36. View this article in WRRO
• Freund L & Toms EG (2006) Enterprise search behaviour of software engineers. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006, 645-646.
• Munteanu C, Baecker R, Penn G, Toms E & James D (2006) The effect of speech recognition accuracy rates on the usefulness and usability of webcast archives. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, 1, 493-502.
• Munteanu C, Penn G, Baecker R, Toms E & James D (2006) Measuring the acceptable word error rate of machine-generated webcast transcripts. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 1, 157-160.
• Bartlett JC & Toms EG (2005) How is information used? Applying task analysis to understanding information use. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 29(3), 352-353.
• Bartlett JC & Toms EG (2005) Developing a protocol for bioinformatics analysis: An integrated information behavior and task analysis approach.. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56, 469-482.
• Toms EG, Dufour C, Lewis J & Baecker R (2005) Assessing tools for use with webcasts. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 79-88.
• Toms EG, Freund L & Li C (2004) WiIRE: the Web Interactive Information Retrieval Experimentation System Prototype.. Information Processing & Management, 40, 655-675.
• Toms EG & Taves AR (2004) Measuring User Perceptions of Web Site Reputation.. Information Processing & Management, 40, 291-317.
• Toms EG & Duff W (2002) ?I spent 1 � hours sifting through one large box. ??: Diaries as information behavior of the archives user: Lessons learned. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(14), 1232-1238.
• Toms EG (2002) Information interaction: Providing a framework for information architecture.. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53, 855-862.
• McGillis L & Toms EG (2001) Usability of the Academic Library Web Site: Implications for Design. College & Research Libraries, 62(4), 355-367.
• Toms EG (2000) Understanding and facilitating the browsing of electronic text. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 52(3), 423-452.
• Toms EG (1999) Does genre define the shape of information? The role of form and function in user interaction with digital documents. Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 36, 693-704.
• Gullikson S, Blades R, Bragdon M, McKibbon S, Sparling M & Toms EG (1999) The impact of information architecture on academic web site usability. Electronic Library, 17(5), 293-304.
• Toms EG & Kinnucan MT (1996) The Effectiveness of the Electronic City Metaphor for Organizing the Menus of Free-Nets.. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47, 919-931.
• Duff WM & Toms EG (1995) HyperRAD: A case study in developing electronic manuals for archives. American Archivist, 58(3), 242-256.
• Toms EG (1992) The basics of systems analysis and design for information managers. Information Processing & Management, 28(2), 281-282.
• Rasmussen E, Toms EG, Jansen BJ & Muresan G () Evaluating success in search systems. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 42(1), n/a-n/a.
• Freund L, Toms EG & Waterhouse J () Modeling the information behaviour of software engineers using a work - task framework. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 42(1), n/a-n/a.
• O'Brien HL & Toms EG () Engagement as process in human-computer interactions. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 42(1), n/a-n/a.
• Bartlett JC & Toms EG () Capturing, modeling and utilizing bioinformatics expertise. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 39(1), 564-565.
• Toms EG () Recognizing Digital Genre. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 27(2), 22-20.

Chapters

• Toms E & Toms EG (2019) Information activities and tasks In Bystrom K, Heinstrom J & Ruthven I (Ed.), Information at Work Facet Publishing View this article in WRRO
• Kanoulas E, Lupu M, Clough P, Sanderson M, Hall M, Hanbury A & Toms E (2014) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface In Kanoulas E, Lupu M, Clough P, Sanderson M, Hall M, Hanbury A & Toms E (Ed.), Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction 5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014, Sheffield, UK, September 15-18, 2014. Proceedings (pp. v-vi). Springer International Publishing
• Toms EG (2011) User-centered design of information systems, Understanding Information Retrieval Systems: Management, Types, and Standards (pp. 65-76).

Conference proceedings papers

• Niwanputri GS, Toms E & Simpson A (2023) Untangling Cognitive Processes Underlying Knowledge Work. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
• Zhuang M, Toms EG & Demartini G (2018) Can User Behaviour Sequences Reflect Perceived Novelty?. Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
• Zhuang M, Demartini G & Toms EG (2017) Understanding Engagement through Search Behaviour. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
• Gäde M, Hall M, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Koolen M, Skov M, Toms E & Walsh D (2016) Overview of the SBS 2016 Interactive Track. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (pp 1024-1038), 5 September 2016 - 8 September 2016.
• McCay-Peet L, Toms EG & Quan-Haase A (2016) SEADE Workshop Proposal - The Serendipity Factor. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval - CHIIR '16, 13 March 2016 - 17 March 2016.
• Zhuang M, Toms EG & Demartini G (2016) The Relationship Between User Perception and User Behaviour in Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation (pp 293-305) View this article in WRRO
• Zhuang M, Toms EG & Demartini G (2016) Search behaviour before and after search success. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1647
• Gäde M, Hall M, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Koolen M, Skov M, Toms E & Walsh D (2015) Overview of the SBS 2015 interactive track. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1391
• Toms EG (2015) Complex tools for complex tasks. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1338
• Koolen M, Bogers T, Gäde M, Hall M, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Skov M, Toms E & Walsh D (2015) Overview of the CLEF 2015 Social Book Search Lab (pp 545-564)
• Gäde M, Hall M, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Koolen M, Skov M, Toms E & Walsh D (2015) Supporting Complex Search Tasks (pp 841-844)
• Russell-Rose T, Clough P & Toms EG (2014) Categorising search sessions. Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium on - IIiX '14, 26 August 2014 - 30 August 2014.
• Hall M, Villa R, Rutter SA, Bell D, Clough P & Toms E (2013) Shefleld submission to the CHiC interactive task: Exploring digital cultural heritage. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1179
• Toms EG & Hall MM (2013) The CHiC interactive task (CHiCi) at CLEF2013. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1179
• Hall MM, Katsaris S & Toms E (2013) A pluggable work-bench for creating interactive IR interfaces. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1033 (pp 35-38)
• (2010) HT'10, Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 13-16, 2010. HT
• O'Brien HL & Toms EG (2010) Is there a universal instrument for measuring Interactive Information Retrieval? The case of the User Engagement Scale. IIiX 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp 335-338) View this article in WRRO
• Hupfer M, Detlor B, Toms E & Trifts V (2009) Online information seeking: Understanding individual differences and search contexts. 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009, Vol. 8 (pp 5568-5576)
• (2007) ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 18-23, 2007, Proceedings. JCDL
• Gonzalo J, Clough P & Vallin A (2006) Overview of the CLEF 2005 Interactive Track (pp 251-262) View this article in WRRO
• Gonzalo J, Clough P & Vallin A (2005) Overview of the CLEF 2005 interactive track. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1171
• Dufour C, Toms EG, Lewis J & Baecker R (2005) User strategies for handling information tasks in webcasts.. CHI Extended Abstracts (pp 1343-1346)
• Freund L, Toms EG & Clarke CLA (2005) Modeling task-genre relationships for IR in the workplace. SIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp 441-448)
• Toms EG, O'Brien HL, Kopak RW & Freund L (2005) Searching for Relevance in the Relevance of Search.. 5th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Sciences, Vol. 3507 (pp 59-78)
• Toms EG, Dufour C & Hesemeier S (2004) Measuring the user's experience with digital libraries.. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (pp 51-52)
• Toms EG, Freund L, Kopak RW & Bartlett JC (2003) The Effect of Task Domain on Search.. Proceedings of the 2003 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (pp 303-312)
• Bartlett JC & Toms EG (2003) Discovering and structuring information flow among bioinformatics resources.. Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp 411-412). Toronto, Canada, 28 July 2003 - 1 August 2003.
• Toms EG, Freund L & Li C (2002) Augmenting and Limiting Search Queries.. TREC, Vol. 500-251
• Keast G, Toms EG & Cherry J (2001) Measuring the reputation of web sites: A preliminary exploration. Proceedings of First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (pp 77-78)
• Toms EG & Bartlett JC (2001) An approach to search for the digital library. Proceedings of First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (pp 341-342)
• Keast G, Toms EG & Cherry JM (2001) Measuring the reputation of web sites: a preliminary exploration.. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (pp 77-78)
• Toms EG, Kopak RW, Bartlett JC & Freund L (2001) Selecting Versus Describing: A Preliminary Analysis of the Efficacy of Categories in Exploring the Web.. TREC, Vol. 500-250
• Toms EG & Bartlett JC (2001) An approach to search for the digital library.. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (pp 341-342)
• Toms EG (2000) Serendipitous Information Retrieval.. DELOS, Vol. 01/W001
• Toms EG & Campbell DG (1999) Genre as Interface Metaphor: Exploiting Form and Function in Digital Environments.. Proceedings ndof the 32 Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences
• Toms EG (1999) What motivates the browser?. Exploring the Contexts of Information Behaviour (pp 191-208)
• Toms EG (1996) Exploring the Information Landscape.. CHI Conference Companion (pp 63-64)
• Freund L & Toms EG () Understanding the brevity of Web queries. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 40(1) (pp 517-518)
• Toms EG & Freund L () Priming the query specification process. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 40(1) (pp 381-388)
• Toms EG, Freund L, Bartlett JC & Kopak R () The role of context in search: Examining the effect of subject domain on the search interface. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 40(1) (pp 543-544)