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@PHDTHESIS{Franken:659882,
      author       = {Franken, Sebastian},
      othercontributors = {Prinz, Wolfgang and Jarke, Matthias and Herrmann, Thomas},
      title        = {{S}upporting asynchronous, discontinuous, collaborative,
                      complex search tasks by the visualization of search trails},
      school       = {RWTH Aachen},
      type         = {Dissertation},
      address      = {Aachen},
      reportid     = {RWTH-2016-05020},
      pages        = {1 Online-Ressource (XI, 316 Seiten) : Illustrationen,
                      Diagramme},
      year         = {2016},
      note         = {Veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen
                      University; Dissertation, RWTH Aachen, 2016},
      abstract     = {To date, complex search tasks lack in support when it comes
                      to asynchronous and discontinuous search in individual and
                      collaborative search scenarios. Examples for complex search
                      tasks are the planning of a family holiday trip or
                      scientific research: These search tasks have in common that
                      the overall result is composed of individual partial
                      results, which strongly depend on the searchers’ personal
                      preferences and want to be generated collaboratively.
                      Especially when these web search tasks happen in an
                      asynchronous or discontinuous way, current solutions provide
                      only limited help. This thesis answers the research question
                      ‘Can search trails provide support for complex web search
                      and how should tool support look like?’. To achieve this,
                      I develop a novel solution for supporting asynchronous,
                      discontinuous, collaborative, complex web search tasks. I
                      achieve this by implementing the web browser extension
                      ‘SearchTrails’ which visualizes the user’s web search
                      behavior as a search trail, visualized as a force-directed
                      graph. The search trail resembles the course of the user’s
                      web search activities, while the system 'SearchTrails'
                      allows storing and exchange of the search process and its
                      results. This way, saved search trails can be recreated by
                      the users themselves, they can be exchanged between
                      collaborating searchers and extended. My approach goes
                      beyond existing approaches as it values the user’s
                      individual search trail above generalized recommendations.
                      Search trails as collaboration artifacts enable direct
                      collaboration between users and provide an unfiltered
                      insight where the collaborating searcher has searched
                      before, and where results have been found. I show the
                      effectivity and efficiency of my developed approach in two
                      user studies. The first user study qualitatively shows the
                      effectiveness of the developed approach, while the second
                      user study quantitatively shows its efficiency. The second
                      user study especially focuses on collaborative search
                      scenarios and shows the impact of the concept of search
                      trails on the quality of the collaborative search process
                      and its search results. Based on the findings from the user
                      studies, the main research question can be answered
                      positively.},
      cin          = {121810 / 123220 / 120000},
      ddc          = {004},
      cid          = {$I:(DE-82)121810_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)123220_20140620$ /
                      $I:(DE-82)120000_20140620$},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
      urn          = {urn:nbn:de:hbz:82-rwth-2016-050201},
      url          = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/659882},
}