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Exploratory search : beyond the query-response paradigm /

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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. Explorator...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, Ryen W.
Other Authors: Roth, Resa A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [San Rafael, Calif.] : Morgan & Claypool, [2009]
Series:Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services (Online) ; #3.
Subjects:
Electronic information resource searching.
Human-computer interaction.
Information behavior.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.