TY - GEN
T1 - Supporting informational Web search with interactive explorations
AU - Chen, Tai Wei
AU - Chang, Ping Lin
AU - Teng, Wei Guang
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - As information technologies advance, the data amount gathered on the Internet increases at an incredible rapid speed. To ease the data overloading problem, people commonly use search engines to reach required information in seconds. Nevertheless, depending on different user goals in web search, users occasionally get lost in the large number of search results when trying to explore them. In this paper, we propose an interactive scheme to support users to conduct such informational web searches in the similar way of map explorations. Specifically, two main concepts, i.e., refocusing and refinement, are devised to constitute the interactive exploration processes. With a proper design and implementation, case studies utilizing our prototype system show that the proposed approach is feasible in improving usability of current search engines.
AB - As information technologies advance, the data amount gathered on the Internet increases at an incredible rapid speed. To ease the data overloading problem, people commonly use search engines to reach required information in seconds. Nevertheless, depending on different user goals in web search, users occasionally get lost in the large number of search results when trying to explore them. In this paper, we propose an interactive scheme to support users to conduct such informational web searches in the similar way of map explorations. Specifically, two main concepts, i.e., refocusing and refinement, are devised to constitute the interactive exploration processes. With a proper design and implementation, case studies utilizing our prototype system show that the proposed approach is feasible in improving usability of current search engines.
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U2 - 10.1109/SITIS.2008.103
DO - 10.1109/SITIS.2008.103
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:60349099850
SN - 9780769534930
T3 - SITIS 2008 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems
SP - 153
EP - 160
BT - SITIS 2008 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems
T2 - 4th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems, SITIS 2008
Y2 - 30 November 2008 through 3 December 2008
ER -