Just Looking Around: Supporting Casual Users Initial Encounters with Digital Cultural Heritage

David Walsh, Mark M Hall

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Abstract

Cultural Heritage institutions have developed numerous way of supporting visitors who have simply wandered in through the front door. However, for their digital collections, the CH institutions mostly provide a simple search-box, which supports the expert user, but which does not support the casual user who has just stumbled across the collection. These casual users frequently have no goal or topic in mind, but just want to have a look around what is available in the collection. For these users the blank search-box presents a significant obstacle, as without a goal or topic it is very difficult to formulate an appropriate query. In this paper we propose extending current exploratory search and information seeking models to support the initial interaction between the casual user and the collection.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 2015
EventProceedings of the First International Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks at ECIR 2015 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 29 Mar 20152 Apr 2015

Workshop

WorkshopProceedings of the First International Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks at ECIR 2015
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period29/03/152/04/15

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