An interface for opportunistic discovery of information for young people

Authors:
Jamshid Beheshti;Andrew Large
Affiliations:
School of Information Studies, McGill University, Quebec, Canada;School of Information Studies, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Venue:
HCII'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction: users and applications - Volume Part IV
Year:
2011

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Abstract

The exploratory study investigates a virtual reality interface for opportunistic discovery for young people. We recruited ten volunteer students, who performed a pre-assigned information search task in a VR library which consists of about 1500 web sites depicted as books organized on the shelves. We calculated a metric for opportunistic discovery of information (ODI) based on the distance of books chosen by the participants from those initially found by a conventional search. The VR interface supported ODI more than do conventional search engines.