Exploratory search: from finding to understanding
Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search
Model-driven formative evaluation of exploratory search: A study under a sensemaking framework
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
An empirical study of the learning effect of an ontology-driven information system
Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Signpost from the masses: learning effects in an exploratory social tag search browser
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploratory Search
What do exploratory searchers look at in a faceted search interface?
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
VisiNav: Visual Web Data Search and Navigation
DEXA '09 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Human-assisted graph search: it's okay to ask questions
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Linked Data
SmartLink: a web-based editor and search environment for linked services
ESWC'11 Proceedings of the 8th extended semantic web conference on The semanic web: research and applications - Volume Part II
Encouraging serendipity in interactive systems
INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part IV
Connecting the dots: a multi-pivot approach to data exploration
ISWC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on The semantic web - Volume Part I
Facet graphs: complex semantic querying made easy
ESWC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications - Volume Part I
Polyzoom: multiscale and multifocus exploration in 2d visual spaces
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Assigning search tasks designed to elicit exploratory search behaviors
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Taming digital traces for informal learning: a semantic-driven approach
EC-TEL'12 Proceedings of the 7th European conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
Assisting user browsing over linked data: requirements elicitation with a user study
ICWE'13 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Web Engineering
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The maturation of semantic technologies and the growing popularity of the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud make it possible to expose linked semantic data sets to end users in order to empower a range of analytical tasks taking advantage of knowledge integration and semantic linking. Linked semantic data appears to offer a great potential for exploratory search, which is open-ended, multi-faceted, and iterative in nature. However, there is limited insight into how browsing through linked semantic data sets can support exploratory search. This paper presents a user study with a uni-focal semantic browsing interface for exploratory search through several data sets linked via domain ontologies. The study, which is qualitative and exploratory in nature and uses music as an illustrative domain, examines (i) obstacles and challenges related to user exploratory search in LOD and (ii) the serendipitous learning effect and the role semantics plays in that. The approach and lessons learnt can benefit future human factor studies to evaluate interactive exploration of linked semantic data, as well as technology developers to become aware of issues that have to be addressed in to facilitate exploratory search with LOD.