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- research-articleSeptember 2024
PAIRWISE – From Spatial Structure to Knowledge
HT '24: Proceedings of the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social MediaSeptember 2024, Pages 208–216https://doi.org/10.1145/3648188.3675137This paper posits that spatially structured concepts can function as a visual representation of knowledge, a notion supported by common methods of eliciting and presenting mental models. Despite an existing gap in understanding the correlation between ...
- research-articleJune 2022
User study on link-service usage and information processing in the context of the world wide web
HUMAN '22: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Human Factors in HypertextJune 2022, Article No.: 4, Pages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1145/3538882.3542802Associating information by means of linking it is a universal concept of human thinking, and by constructivist means, a possible way of learning through exploring and constructing individual information spaces related to a topic or cross topics. An ...
- short-paperJune 2022
Recommending research papers to chemists: a specialized interface for chemical entity exploration
JCDL '22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital LibrariesJune 2022, Article No.: 22, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3529372.3533281Researchers and scientists increasingly rely on specialized information retrieval (IR) or recommendation systems (RS) to support them in their daily research tasks. Paper recommender systems are one such tool scientists use to stay on top of the ever-...
- research-articleApril 2022
BIGexplore: Bayesian Information Gain Framework for Information Exploration
CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2022, Article No.: 37, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517729The Bayesian information gain (BIG) framework has garnered significant interest as an interaction method for predicting a user’s intended target based on a user’s input. However, the BIG framework is constrained to goal-oriented cases, which renders it ...
- research-articleJuly 2020
Personalizing Information Exploration with an Open User Model
HT '20: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social MediaJuly 2020, Pages 167–176https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404797Over the past two decades, several information exploration approaches were suggested to support a special category of search tasks known as exploratory search. These approaches creatively combined search, browsing, and information analysis steps ...
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- research-articleJune 2018
INFEX: A Unifying Framework for Cross-Device Information Exploration and Exchange
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 2, Issue EICSArticle No.: 2, Pages 1–26https://doi.org/10.1145/3179427In our daily lives we are witnessing a proliferation of digital devices including tablets, smartphones, digital cameras or wearable appliances. A major effort has been made to enable these devices to exchange information in intelligent spaces and ...
- research-articleJune 2018
From Hyperlinks to Hypercues: Entity-Based Affordances for Fluid Information Exploration
DIS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems ConferenceJune 2018, Pages 401–411https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196775We introduce the concept of hypercue, a complement to the hyperlink in the form of an interactive representation of real-world entities, e.g. persons, places, concepts, providing personalized access points to information. As a pendant to the hyperlink, ...
- short-paperDecember 2016
Flexible entity search on surfaces
MUM '16: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous MultimediaDecember 2016, Pages 175–179https://doi.org/10.1145/3012709.3012732Surface computing allows flexible search interaction where users can manipulate the representation of entities recommended for them to create new queries or augment existing queries by taking advantage of increased screen estate and almost physical ...
- research-articleSeptember 2016
Probing the interconnections between geo-exploration and information exploration behavior
UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous ComputingSeptember 2016, Pages 1170–1175https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971694As increasingly diverse facets of human life - including socializing, exercising, and information-seeking - are mediated by ubiquitous technology, they open the doors for the study of the hitherto under-explored interconnections between them. This work ...
- short-paperMarch 2016
A Spoken Dialog System for Coordinating Information Consumption and Exploration
CHIIR '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Conference on Human Information Interaction and RetrievalMarch 2016, Pages 253–256https://doi.org/10.1145/2854946.2854995Passive consumption of information is boring in most cases and even painful in some cases, especially when the information content is delivered by employing speech media. The user of a speech-based information delivery system, for example a text-to-...
- research-articleDecember 2015
Better health information exploration
APCHIUX '15: Proceedings of the Asia Pacific HCI and UX Design SymposiumDecember 2015, Pages 10–15https://doi.org/10.1145/2846439.2846444The provision of health information has to be clear and appealing to users. Research has shown that health information seekers do not all have the same attributes, skills or needs. In any given health-related app or website, there is a need to provide ...
- research-articleOctober 2015
Crowdsourcing Pareto-Optimal Object Finding By Pairwise Comparisons
CIKM '15: Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge ManagementOctober 2015, Pages 753–762https://doi.org/10.1145/2806416.2806451This is the first study of crowdsourcing Pareto-optimal object finding over partial orders and by pairwise comparisons, which has applications in public opinion collection, group decision making, and information exploration. Departing from prior studies ...
- noteJune 2015
InspirationWall: Supporting Idea Generation Through Automatic Information Exploration
C&C '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and CognitionJune 2015, Pages 103–106https://doi.org/10.1145/2757226.2757252Collaborative idea generation leverages social interactions and knowledge sharing to spark diverse associations and produce creative ideas. Information exploration systems expand the current context by suggesting novel but related concepts. In this ...
- research-articleMarch 2015
IntentStreams: Smart Parallel Search Streams for Branching Exploratory Search
- Salvatore Andolina,
- Khalil Klouche,
- Jaakko Peltonen,
- Mohammad Hoque,
- Tuukka Ruotsalo,
- Diogo Cabral,
- Arto Klami,
- Dorota Głowacka,
- Patrik Floréen,
- Giulio Jacucci
IUI '15: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent User InterfacesMarch 2015, Pages 300–305https://doi.org/10.1145/2678025.2701401The user's understanding of information needs and the information available in the data collection can evolve during an exploratory search session. Search systems tailored for well-defined narrow search tasks may be suboptimal for exploratory search ...
- research-articleNovember 2013
Patient-centric, multi-role, and multi-dimension information exploration on online healthcare forums
PIKM '13: Proceedings of the sixth workshop on Ph.D. students in information and knowledge managementNovember 2013, Pages 41–44https://doi.org/10.1145/2513166.2513174Online healthcare forums provide a valuable platform for people to share medical information and support each other. However, currently the rich information shared on healthcare forums has not been fully explored. In this work, we first motivate the ...
- extended-abstractMay 2012
mashpoint: supporting data-centric navigation on the web
CHI EA '12: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 2012, Pages 2249–2254https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2223784Large numbers of Web sites support rich data-centric features to explore and interact with data en masse. For example, online shopping or travel sites routinely offer users ways to filter, explore and interact with their data. The ability to find ...
- research-articleMay 2011
Can Computers Master the Art of Communication?: A Focus on Visual Analytics
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (ICGA), Volume 31, Issue 3May 2011, Pages 14–21https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2011.39Visual analytics is a powerful paradigm for gaining insight from large, complex data. It seeks to engage the analyst more deeply in data exploration, allowing for iterative sense-making using visual interaction for fast, intuitive human-computer ...
- research-articleNovember 2010
Search Computing: Managing Complex Search Queries
- Stefano Ceri,
- Adnan Abid,
- Mamoun Abu Helou,
- Davide Barbieri,
- Alessandro Bozzon,
- Daniele Braga,
- Marco Brambilla,
- Alessandro Campi,
- Francesco Corcoglioniti,
- Emanuele Della Valle,
- Davide Eynard,
- Piero Fraternali,
- Michael Grossniklaus,
- Davide Martinenghi,
- Stefania Ronchi,
- Marco Tagliasacchi,
- Salvatore Vadacca
IEEE Internet Computing (IEEECS_INTERNET), Volume 14, Issue 6November 2010, Pages 14–22https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2010.106Search computing focuses on building answers to complex search queries (for example, "Where can I attend an interesting conference in my field near a sunny beach?") by interacting with a constellation of cooperating search services, and using result ...
- research-articleFebruary 2010
An ontology-based interface for improving information exploration
IVITA '10: Proceedings of the first international workshop on Intelligent visual interfaces for text analysisFebruary 2010, Pages 29–32https://doi.org/10.1145/2002353.2002364The explosive growth of the Web necessitates the use of approaches such as search engines, social indexing and visualisation systems to assist in exploring online information. Current systems based on keyword search and sequential listing are becoming ...
- research-articleJanuary 2008
Subjunctive interfaces: Extending applications to support parallel setup, viewing and control of alternative scenarios
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Volume 14, Issue 4Article No.: 17, Pages 1–44https://doi.org/10.1145/1314683.1314685Many applications require exploration of alternative scenarios; most support it poorly. Subjunctive interfaces provide mechanisms for the parallel setup, viewing and control of scenarios, aiming to support users' thinking about and interaction with ...