The future is in the past: designing for exploratory search

  • Authors:
  • Gene Golovchinsky;Abdigani Diriye;Tony Dunnigan

  • Affiliations:
  • FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc., Palo Alto, CA;University College London Interaction Centre, University College London, UK;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc., Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Exploratory search activities tend to span multiple sessions and involve finding, analyzing and evaluating information found through many queries. Typical search systems, on the other hand, are designed to support single query, precision-oriented search tasks. We describe a search interface and system design of a multi-session exploratory search system, discuss design challenges encountered, and chronicle the evolution of our design. Our design describes novel displays for visualizing retrieval history information, and introduces ambient displays and persuasive elements to interactive information retrieval.