Making sense of large graph datasets is a fundamental and challenging process that
advances science, education and technology. We survey research on graph exploration and …

Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently
conducted through interactions with search systems. The retrieval and comprehension of …

Navigating information spaces is an essential part of our everyday lives, and in order to
design efficient and user-friendly information systems, it is important to understand how …

We present methods to automatically identify and recommend sub-tasks to help people
explore and accomplish complex search tasks. Although Web searchers often exhibit …

Search trails mined from browser or toolbar logs comprise queries and the post-query pages
that users visit. Implicit endorsements from many trails can be useful for search result …

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The importance of tasks in information retrieval (IR) has been long argued for, addressed in
different ways, often ignored, and frequently revisited. For decades, scholars made a case …

Current mobile devices are often equipped with several network interfaces, which may be of
different access technologies, both wireless and cellular. Different requirements of different …

Current research on web search has focused on optimizing and evaluating single queries.
However, a significant fraction of user queries are part of more complex tasks [20] which …

Web search is increasingly used to satisfy complex, exploratory information goals. Exploring
and synthesizing information into knowledge can be slow and cognitively demanding due to …