Visualizing search sequences

Abstract

This video presents a novel visualization technique of interactive search sessions. The objective of this work is to enable characterization and comparison of interactive search sessions with respect to strategies and tactics employed by different people and on different search tasks. The visual aspect of this approach aims to off-load cognition by shifting part of the required processing to perception enabling thus information science researchers to obtain quick overview of search sessions. The video explains the technique and its applications on examples created from data collected in a controlled Web search study. Copyright notice continues right here.