Looking ahead: query preview in exploratory search

Authors:
Pernilla Qvarfordt;Gene Golovchinsky;Tony Dunnigan;Elena Agapie
Affiliations:
FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA;Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Uganda
Venue:
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Exploratory search is a complex, iterative information seeking activity that involves running multiple queries and finding and examining many documents. We designed a query preview control that visualizes the distribution of newly-retrieved and re-retrieved documents prior to running the query. When evaluating the preview control with a control condition, we found effects on both people's information seeking behavior and improved retrieval performance. People spent more time formulating a query and were more likely to explore search results more deeply, retrieved a more diverse set of documents, and found more different relevant documents when using the preview.