Studying Visual Analytics Support for Interactive Information Retrieval within Complex Search Settings

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This research addresses a problem that is becoming increasingly important in our modern information-centric lives. As we have become adept at searching the web for factual information, we are increasingly discovering the need to address complex information seeking problems within specialized knowledge repositories. While web search engines support finding single-page answers to focused questions using simple search interfaces, support for complex information seeking tasks is limited. Resolving such problems requires more than just viewing the top few documents in the search results list; the searcher may need to explore among and make sense of a potentially large number of search results, refine the query as the information seeking goal becomes more precise, and synthesize information gleaned from multiple queries and potentially over multiple information seeking sessions.