1. Directions in Web Search Interfaces: Enhancing Visualization and Interaction to Support Exploratory Search Bill Kules 2010 SLIS Symposium - Bridging the Spectrum January 29, 2010

3. Outline What is exploratory search? Layered model of search Examples Impact and trends

4. Exploratory Search Motivated by complex information problems Often involves uncertainty, ambiguity, discovery, learning May be exhaustive May extend over hours, days, months (Marchionini 2006; White 2009; White, Kules, et al. 2006)

5. Layered model of search (Järvelin and Ingwersen, 2004)

6. Examples Faceted search Social techniques Visualization techniques

7. Faceted Search National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations - http://thumper.vtls.com:6080/visualizer/ http://thumper.vtls.com:6080/visualizer/ Relation Browser - http://ils.unc.edu/relationbrowser/ http://ils.unc.edu/relationbrowser/ mSpace - http://mspace.fm/http://mspace.fm/

9. Relation Browser

10. mSpace

11. Social Techniques Mr Taggy - http://mrtaggy.com/http://mrtaggy.com/

13. Visualization AquaBrowser - http://discovery.wrlc.org/cuhttp://discovery.wrlc.org/cu Treemap - http://www.hivegroup.com/gallery/digg.html http://www.hivegroup.com/gallery/digg.html Network Visualization by Semantic Substrates - http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/nvss/ http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/nvss/ Continuum timeline browser - http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13818/2/uist2007- continuum.mov http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13818/2/uist2007- continuum.mov

15. Treemap – Digg’s most popular stories

16. NVSS Shneiderman & Aris, 2006

17. Continuum Timeline Browser

18. Impact and Trends Simplicity is on the wane More combinations – lists + visualization Rich interactions are becoming the norm Beyond the query/response –Overviews, histories, domain-specific support

19. Acknowledgements From Keyword Search to Exploration: Designing Future Search Interfaces for the Web Max L. Wilson, Bill Kules, m. c. schraefel and Ben Shneiderman Foundations and Trends in Web Science Vol. 2, No. 1 (2010) 1–96