Supporting Complex Information Needs via Large-Scale Collaborative Search

The need for exploration comes from users’ information needs that are highly complex: open-ended and multi-faceted information needs that are derived from complex search tasks such as learning tasks. Researchers have shown that exploratory search can be better supported through explicit search collaborations. More importantly, previous research has suggested that leveraging collaborations of a large group of users may lead to an improved user experience. However, there is still a lack of evidence in support of this hypothesis as past studies were usually conducted in restricted environments (laboratory studies with small groups of participants and simulated work tasks). In this paper, we briey discuss how we will shed light on this research field, and we present current work and future directions.

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Felipe Moraes

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Publication date: September 2017

Publication date (Print): September 2017

Pages: 1-4

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[0001]Delft University of Technology

Delft, The Netherlands

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.1

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Copyright statement: © Moraes. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access 2017

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Conference name: Seventh BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access

Conference acronym: FDIA

Conference number: 7

Conference location: Barcelona, Spain

Conference date: 5 September 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Future Directions in Information Access

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Supporting Complex Information Needs via Large-Scale Collaborative Search

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