Modeling Exploratory Search as a Knowledge-Intensive Process

Marcelo Tibau, Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira, Bernardo Pereira Nunes, Maria Bortoluzzi, Ivana Marenzi · 2018

Searching as Learning and Information Seeking require exploratory search to be modeled for supporting learning. The present paper introduces a model of exploratory search that was applied on web searching in language teacher education, which promoted its evolution and validation, and enabled a visualization of search pattern and learning process. This model was able to help clarify best practices associated to users' decision-making process regarding suitable and not suitable information and to capture the relevance of context variables, personal skills and expertise that users utilize as filters for the search.

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