Task complexity affects information seeking and use
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Ask for information retrieval: part I.: background and theory
Readings in information retrieval
Advantages of query biased summaries in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A sensemaking-supporting information gathering system
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploratory search: from finding to understanding
Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search
Examining the effectiveness of real-time query expansion
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A faceted approach to conceptualizing tasks in information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The nature of device models: the yoked state space hypothesis and some experiments with text editors
Human-Computer Interaction
Exploratory Search
A polyrepresentational approach to interactive query expansion
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Evaluating advanced search interfaces using established information-seeking models
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
When is system support effective?
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Assigning search tasks designed to elicit exploratory search behaviors
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
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There is growing recognition that exploratory search is less well supported by existing search interfaces than known-item search. In this paper, we report on a study in which three interfaces providing different levels of search support were developed and tested, for both known item and exploratory search tasks. A rich qualitative analysis of participants' search behaviours and perceptions was conducted. As expected, the simplest interface provided better support for known item than for exploratory search tasks. Conversely, richer search interface features were found to provide better support for exploratory search, but would distract people from the objective of more clearly defined search tasks. This study provides preliminary evidence that searching is most effective when supported by an interface that is tailored towards the search activities of the task.