Usability studies of faceted browsing: A literature review

JC Fagan - Information Technology and Libraries, 2010 - ejournals.bc.edu
Faceted browsing is a common feature of new library catalog interfaces. But to what extent
does it improve user performance in searching within today's library catalog systems? This …

Assigning search tasks designed to elicit exploratory search behaviors

BM Wildemuth, L Freund - Proceedings of the symposium on human …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
The goal of this paper is to provide guidance to researchers investigating exploratory search
behaviors and exploratory search systems. It focuses on the design of search tasks assigned …

What do exploratory searchers look at in a faceted search interface?

B Kules, R Capra, M Banta, T Sierra - Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
This study examined how searchers interacted with a web-based, faceted library catalog
when conducting exploratory searches. It applied eye tracking, stimulated recall interviews …

Untangling search task complexity and difficulty in the context of interactive information retrieval studies

B Wildemuth, L Freund, E G. Toms - Journal of Documentation, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–One core element of interactive information retrieval (IIR) experiments is the
assignment of search tasks. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analytical review of …

A personalized group-based recommendation approach for Web search in E-learning

MM Rahman, NA Abdullah - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unprecedented growth of the Internet, its pervasive accessibility, and ease of use have
increased students' dependencies on the Web for quick search and retrieval of learning …

Understanding casual-leisure information behaviour

D Elsweiler, ML Wilson, BK Lunn - New directions in information …, 2011 - emerald.com
Originally grounded in library and information science, the majority of information behaviour
and information-seeking theories focus on task-based scenarios where users try to resolve …

From keyword search to exploration: Designing future search interfaces for the web

ML Wilson, B Kules… - Foundations and Trends …, 2010 - nowpublishers.com
This monograph is directed at researchers and developers who are designing the next
generation of web search user interfaces, by focusing on the techniques and visualizations …

Designing for exploratory search on touch devices

K Klouche, T Ruotsalo, D Cabral, S Andolina… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Exploratory search confront users with challenges in expressing search intents as the
current search interfaces require investigating result listings to identify search directions …

A systematic review of cost, effort, and load research in information search and retrieval, 1972–2020

M McGregor, L Azzopardi, M Halvey - ACM Transactions on Information …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
During the information search and retrieval (ISR) process, user-system interactions such as
submitting queries, examining results, and engaging with information impose some degree …

Resultmaps: Visualization for search interfaces

E Clarkson, K Desai, J Foley - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hierarchical representations are common in digital repositories, yet are not always fully
leveraged in their online search interfaces. This work describes ResultMaps, which use …