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Explicit verses Implicit: An Analysis of a Multiple Search Result Visualization

Edward Suvanaphen and Jonathan C. Roberts

In E. Banissi, K. Borner, C. Chen, M. Dastbaz, G. Clapworthy, A. Faiola, E. Izquierdo, C. Maple, J. Roberts, C. Moore, A. Ursyn, and J.J. Zhang, editors, 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation, pages 182-196. IEEE Computer Society, July 2004.

Abstract

When searching on the web, users often reformulate their queries after viewing the results and viewing some of the pages. After one or two reformulations the user may im-plicitly realize patterns and relationships between the mul-tiple search results. We believe that these patterns can be used to identify interesting results. We have developed the prototype Search Engine Similarity (SES) tool which ex-plicitly visualizes the similarity between multiple searches. In this paper we describe an experiment to determine whether explicitly visualizing the relationships between mul-tiple searches will let users browse more effectively. Our results show that explicit difference visualizations can en-hance the search process for some tasks. Figure 1: A model of the Information Seeking Process

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{1991,
author = {Edward Suvanaphen and Jonathan C. Roberts},
title = {{Explicit verses Implicit: An Analysis of a Multiple Search Result Visualization}},
month = {July},
year = {2004},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2004/1991},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
    submission_id = {16133_1098278890},
    ISBN = {0-7695-2177-0},
    publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
    refereed = {yes},
    editor = {E. Banissi and K. Borner and C. Chen and M. Dastbaz and G. Clapworthy and A. Faiola and E. Izquierdo and C. Maple and J. Roberts and C. Moore and A. Ursyn and J.J. Zhang},
    booktitle = {8th International Conference on Information Visualisation},
}

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