What is it about?
We designed a novel search interface (KLink Search) that allows a searcher to interactively select keywords from search results that are relevant. This allows other search results that use these same keywords to easily be identified. A user study was conducted to assess the usability, knowledge gain, and performance of searchers, in the context of exploratory browsing within academic digital library search tasks.
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Why is it important?
Exploratory browsing is an important first step in exploratory search, but little support is provided within common academic digital library search interfaces. This work shows an example of how lightweight visualizations can be added to search interfaces to support exploratory browsing. The user study confirmed that the features we added (visually linked keywords, workspace) can be used to improve subjective opinions regarding the search interface and the search activity, as well as objective performance measures (precision of saved documents).
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This was a study conducted by a Master's student (first author). She has since defended her thesis, and we have written a journal article (under review) that explains the approach in greater detail, and includes the analysis of further data from the user study.
Orland Hoeber
University of Regina
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This page is a summary of: Visually Linked Keywords to Support Exploratory Browsing, March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3406522.3446037.
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