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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Exploratory search
    sub title: beyond the query-response paradigm
  name:
    name part: White, Ryen W.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Roth, Resa A.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: x, 98 pages : illustrations, digital, PDF file.
  abstract: As information becomes more ubiquitous and the demands that searchers have on search systems grow, there is a need to support search behaviors beyond simple lookup. Information seeking is the process or activity of attempting to obtain information in both human and technological contexts. Exploratory search describes an information-seeking problem context that is open-ended, persistent, and multifaceted, and information-seeking processes that are opportunistic, iterative, and multitactical. Exploratory searchers aim to solve complex problems and develop enhanced mental capacities. Exploratory search systems support this through symbiotic human-machine relationships that provide guidance in exploring unfamiliar information landscapes. Exploratory search has gained prominence in recent years. There is an increased interest from the information retrieval, information science, and human-computer interaction communities in moving beyond the traditional turn-taking interaction model supported by major Web search engines, and toward support for human intelligence amplification and information use. In this lecture, we introduce exploratory search, relate it to relevant extant research, outline the features of exploratory search systems, discuss the evaluation of these systems, and suggest some future directions for supporting exploratory search. Exploratory search is a new frontier in the search domain and is becoming increasingly important in shaping our future world.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Overview -- Background -- Emerging interest in exploratory search -- Structure of the lecture -- Defining exploratory search -- Problem context -- Search process -- Modeling exploratory search behavior -- Exploratory browsing -- Focused searching -- Differentiating exploratory search -- Summary -- Related work -- Curiosity, exploratory behavior, and browsing -- Information foraging -- Berrypicking -- Sense-making -- Information-seeking processes and behaviors -- Cognitive information retrieval -- Positioning exploratory search -- Summary -- Features of exploratory search systems -- Support querying and rapid query refinement -- Offer facets and metadata-based result filtering -- Leverage search context -- Offer visualizations to support insight/decision making -- Support learning and understanding -- Facilitate collaboration -- Offer histories, workspaces, and progress updates -- Support task management -- Summary -- Evaluation of exploratory search systems -- Metrics -- Methodologies -- Summary -- Future directions and concluding remarks -- Future directions -- Novel interaction paradigms -- Context awareness -- Task adaptation -- Decision-making support and what-if analysis -- Beyond the personal computer -- Collaborative and social search -- Learning about new domains -- New evaluation paradigms -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Author biographies.
  note: Ryen W. White, Resa A. Roth.
  note: Title from PDF title page (viewed Apr. 8, 2009).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Access restricted to subscribers.
  note: Also available in print.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-96).
  subject:
    topic: Electronic information resource searching
  subject:
    topic: Human-computer interaction
  subject:
    topic: Information behavior
  classification: ZA4230 .W454 2009
  classification: 025.04
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services (Online) ; #3
  identifier: 9781598297836 (pbk.)
  identifier: 159829783X (pbk.)
  identifier: 9781598297843
  identifier: 1598297848
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  access condition: Access restricted to subscribers.
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 080731
    record change date: 20190328175740.0
    record identifier: in00002544871
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng