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Visual interfaces for stimulating exploratory search

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Exploration is an activity that people undertake to broaden their knowledge on a certain topic. In contrast to regular search, which is typically aimed at obtaining a specific answer to a specific question, exploratory search should give a more complete overview of a topic. Further it should enable the discovery of related aspects, such as people, places, times and locations. Exploration demands more time, effort and creativity from the user, but rewards the user with deeper knowledge. Therefore, users need to be stimulated to bring exploration in regular goal-directed search activities. In this paper we present a user study in which we investigate different kinds of exploratory behavior and goals, as well as different kinds of visualizations to support exploration.

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JCDL '11: Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
June 2011
500 pages
ISBN:9781450307444
DOI:10.1145/1998076

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  1. exploratory search
  2. search interface
  3. visualization

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June 13 - 17, 2011
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