{"id":3247,"date":"2010-03-24T07:08:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2010-03-23T22:39:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T05:39:20","slug":"exploratory-search-session-at-chi-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=3247","title":{"rendered":"Exploratory search session at CHI 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will be chairing the session on exploratory search at CHI 2010<\/a>. The session, which features a best paper award winner and a best paper nominee, will take place Monday morning after the opening plenary session. The session consists of three papers:<\/p>\n

Reactive Information Foraging for Evolving Goals<\/em>
\nby Joseph Lawrance, Margaret Burnett, Rachel Bellamy, Christopher Bogart, and Calvin Swart<\/p>\n

\"[Best How does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult?
\n<\/em>Anne Aula, Rehan M. Khan, and Zhiwei Guan<\/p>\n

\"[Best Effects of Popularity and Quality on the Usage of Query Suggestions during Information Search
\n<\/em>Diane Kelly, Amber Cushing, Maureen Dostert, Xi Niu, and Karl Gyllstrom<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I will comment on the papers in the next few days, but for now I will point out that abstracts to these, and other CHI 2010 papers, are available through the iPhone app, or through Nirmal Patel’s CHI2010<\/a> web site. The web site has an interesting search function that highlights sessions that match the keywords you enter. This is really more of a browsing aid rather than traditional search, but it can be handy when looking for specific keywords, authors, or a particular paper. It’s less useful for finding references to broader topics (say, information seeking) because the vocabulary is too unpredictable given the small corpus.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I was able to identify some promising sessions related to Exploratory Search by trying several different queries. Thus, we have:<\/p>\n