Using meaningful and stable categories to support exploratory web search: Two formative studies
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Categorizing web search results into comprehensible visual displays using meaningful and stable classifications can support user exploration, understanding, and discovery. We report on two formative studies in the domain of U.S. government web search that investigated how searchers use categorized overviews of search results for complex, exploratory search tasks. The first study compared two overview conditions vs. a control (N=18). The overviews were based on the federal government organizational hierarchy. With the overview conditions, participants noticed missing results more often than participants in the control. They also found pages of interest
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تاریخ انتشار 2005