PaperPoles: Facilitating adaptive visual exploration of scientific publications by citation links. (28th February 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- PaperPoles: Facilitating adaptive visual exploration of scientific publications by citation links. (28th February 2019)
- Main Title:
- PaperPoles: Facilitating adaptive visual exploration of scientific publications by citation links
- Authors:
- He, Jiangen
Ping, Qing
Lou, Wen
Chen, Chaomei - Abstract:
- Abstract : Finding relevant publications is a common task. Typically, a researcher browses through a list of publications and traces additional relevant publications. When relevant publications are identified, the list may be expanded by the citation links of the relevant publications. The information needs of researchers may change as they go through such iterative processes. The exploration process quickly becomes cumbersome as the list expands. Most existing academic search systems tend to be limited in terms of the extent to which searchers can adapt their search as they proceed. In this article, we introduce an adaptive visual exploration system named PaperPoles to support exploration of scientific publications in a context‐aware environment. Searchers can express their information needs by intuitively formulating positive and negative queries. The search results are grouped and displayed in a cluster view, which shows aspects and relevance patterns of the results to support navigation and exploration. We conducted an experiment to compare PaperPoles with a list‐based interface in performing two academic search tasks with different complexity. The results show that PaperPoles can improve the accuracy of searching for the simple and complex tasks. It can also reduce the completion time of searching and improve exploration effectiveness in the complex task. PaperPoles demonstrates a potentially effective workflow for adaptive visual search of complex information.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Volume 70:Number 8(2019:Aug.)
- Journal:
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
- Issue:
- Volume 70:Number 8(2019:Aug.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 70, Issue 8 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 70
- Issue:
- 8
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0070-0008-0000
- Page Start:
- 843
- Page End:
- 857
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02-28
- Subjects:
- Information science -- Periodicals
Information technology -- Periodicals
020.5 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%292330-1643 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1002/asi.24171 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2330-1635
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