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Looking ahead: query preview in exploratory search

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Pernilla Qvarfordt,

Gene Golovchinsky,

Elena AgapieAuthors Info & Claims

SIGIR '13: Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

Pages 243 - 252

https://doi.org/10.1145/2484028.2484084

Published: 28 July 2013 Publication History

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.

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SIGIR '13: Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

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DOI:10.1145/2484028

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