Exploring and Investigating: Supporting High-Level Search Activities

  • Gina Venolia ,
  • Meredith Ringel Morris ,
  • Dan Morris

CHI 2007 Workshop on Exploratory Search and HCI |

Much work has been done to improve search as an isolated act, yet little has been done to understand search as it relates to higher-level patterns of behavior, or to develop user interfaces to support these patterns. In this paper, we analyze exploratory and investigative search processes that involve performing several related searches over a period of time. We then discuss requirements for interfaces to support these tasks, and describe three prototype systems.