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 |
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| 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 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9798400700354 |
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| 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 |
Conference
| Conference | 2023 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) |
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| Abbreviated title | CHIIR 2023 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Austin |
| Period | 19/03/23 → 23/03/23 |
Funding
I want to thank my supervisors, Prof. Ian Ruthven and Dr. Leif Azzopardi, for their continuous support. I also thank my colleagues at the DoSSIER project who worked on the CRUISE-Literature application, especially Wojciech Kusa and Óscar E. Mendoza. The work reported here is funded by the DOSSIER project under European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860721.
Keywords
- exploratory search
- literature search
- user interface