Supporting Exploratory Information Seeking by Epistemology-based Social Search

Yuqing Mao; Haifeng Shen; Chengzheng Sun

doi:10.1145/1719970.1720029

Supporting Exploratory Information Seeking by Epistemology-based Social Search

Yuqing Mao, Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun

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Abstract

Formulating proper keywords and evaluating search results are common difficulties in exploratory information seeking. Reusing and refining others' successful searches are pragmatic directions to tackle these difficulties. In this paper, we present a novel epistemology-based social search solution, where search epistemologies are effectively shared, reused, and refined by others with the same or similar search interests through novel user interfaces. We have developed a prototype system Baijia and experimental results show that an epistemology-based social search system outperforms a conventional search engine in supporting exploratory information seeking.

Original language	English
Pages	353-356
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1719970.1720029
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces - Duration: 7 Feb 2010 → …

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Conference	ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Period	7/02/10 → …

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Epistemology-based social search
Exploratory information seeking
World wide web

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