Towards understanding and supporting exploratory searches

Ayah Soufan

doi:10.1145/3576840.3578304

Towards understanding and supporting exploratory searches

Ayah Soufan

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Abstract

Exploratory search is an intuitive concept in interactive information retrieval. It is known that searchers use exploratory search strategies when learning and investigating a new domain. Many definitions for Exploratory Search have been proposed. However, the main dimensions involve high uncertainty with respect to the problem context, the user expertise, and the search process. In this work, we study exploratory search in the literature, and we provide a conceptual model of exploratory search. We also conduct a user study to examine how literature searches are exploratory and what factors influence the exploratory dimensions and characteristics. Moreover, we review the exploratory support tasks, and we try to better design and evaluate exploratory user interfaces.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHIIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
Place of Publication	New York
Pages	490–494
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3576840.3578304
Publication status	Published - 20 Mar 2023
Event	2023 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) - UTexas iSchool, Austin, United States Duration: 19 Mar 2023 → 23 Mar 2023

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Conference	2023 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR)
Abbreviated title	CHIIR 2023
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	19/03/23 → 23/03/23

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exploratory search
literature search
user interface

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