Travel around a learning support environment: rambling, orienteering or touring?
CHI '88 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Guided tours and tabletops: tools for communicating in a hypertext environment
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Orienteering in an information landscape: how information seekers get from here to there
INTERCHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERCHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems
Information retrieval from hypertext using dynamically planned guided tours
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
interactions
The order of things: activity-centered information access
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Footprints: history-rich tools for information foraging
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Where have you been from here? Trials in hypertext systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
The Best Trail Algorithm for Assisted Navigation of Web Sites
LA-WEB '03 Proceedings of the First Conference on Latin American Web Congress
Analysis of topic dynamics in web search
WWW '05 Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Query chains: learning to rank from implicit feedback
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery in data mining
Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A field study characterizing Web-based information-seeking tasks
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Investigating behavioral variability in web search
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Mining the search trails of surfing crowds: identifying relevant websites from user activity
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Assessing the scenic route: measuring the value of search trails in web logs
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Toward whole-session relevance: exploring intrinsic diversity in web search
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Struggling or exploring?: disambiguating long search sessions
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
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Complex search tasks such as planning a vacation often comprise multiple queries and may span a number of search sessions. When engaged in such tasks, users may require holistic support in determining the required task activities. Unfortunately, current search engines do not offer such support to their users. In this paper, we propose methods to automatically generate task tours comprising a starting task and a set of relevant related tasks, some or all of which may be necessary to satisfy a user's information needs. Applications of the tours include helping users understand the required steps to complete a task, finding URLs related to the active task, and alerting users to activities they may have missed. We demonstrate through experimentation with human judges and large-scale search logs that our tours are of good quality and can benefit a significant fraction of search engine users.