Cross‐Session Aggregated Search: Organizing and Summarizing Found Resources
Milad Momeni, Orland Hoeber · Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2025
ABSTRACT Searchers engaged in complex search tasks and following exploratory search processes often need to pause their search activities. Resuming such tasks is especially challenging in the context of multi‐platform search, as previously discovered information may be dispersed across multiple search platforms. While a variety of approaches have been developed to support aggregated search, supporting cross‐session searching within this context is understudied. Building upon prior work on aggregating search results within a digital humanities context (Europeana, our University Library, and Wikipedia), we propose a sensemaking approach to facilitate task resumption. This includes a cluster‐based workspace, drag‐and‐drop cluster manipulation, interactive highlighting of relevant passages, and generative AI summaries that make use of the highlighted passages.