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Designing exploratory search tasks for user studies of information seeking support systems

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Bill Kules,

Robert CapraAuthors Info & Claims

JCDL '09: Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

Pages 419 - 420

https://doi.org/10.1145/1555400.1555492

Published: 15 June 2009 Publication History

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This poster describes a procedure for designing exploratory tasks for use in laboratory evaluations of information seeking interfaces. This procedure is grounded in the literature on information seeking and information retrieval and has been refined by an evaluation of four tasks designed for a study of a faceted library catalog. The procedure is intended to be extensible to generate exploratory tasks for other types of interfaces and domains.

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Kules, B., & Capra, R. (2008). Creating exploratory tasks for a faceted search interface. Paper presented at the Second Workshop on Human--Computer Interaction (HCIR 2008).

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Designing exploratory search tasks for user studies of information seeking support systems
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval

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JCDL '09: Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

June 2009

502 pages

ISBN:9781605583228

DOI:10.1145/1555400

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Fred Heath
University of Texas Libraries, USA
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University of Texas at Austin, USA
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Richard Furuta
Texas A&M University, USA

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