Navigating tomorrow's web: From searching and browsing to visual exploration

ACM Transactions on the Web

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Dörk, Marian ^a   Williamson, Carey ^a   Carpendale, Sheelagh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exploratory search; Faceted navigation; Information retrieval; Information visualization; Visual information seeking; World wide web

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY SEARCH; INFORMATION NEED; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION SPACES; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; INTERACTIVE INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; QUERY FORMULATION; SEARCH QUERIES; VISUAL EXPLORATION; VISUAL INFORMATION SEEKING; WEB-BASED SYSTEM;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; NAVIGATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84870168732     PISSN: 15591131     EISSN: 1559114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2344416.2344420     Document Type: Article

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