Revisiting exploratory search from the HCI perspective
Abdigani Diriye, Max L. Wilson, A.E. Blandford, Anastasios Tombros · 2010
In this paper, we revisit the definition of Exploratory Search tasks after 4 years of contributions from the Information Seeking and Retrieval community. We consolidate the factors that influence an exploratory search task: objective, search activities, conceptual complexity, and procedural complexity, and introduce a new factor: domain knowledge. We hypothesize that, in order to support Exploratory Search tasks efficiently, we must consider all the factors from an HCI perspective.