Prof. Chirag Shah gave an invited talk on “Information Fostering: Being Proactive in Information Seeking” at University of Texas Austin on March 4. In the talk, he discussed how to analyze a search process in an exploratory search task to be able to predict its likelihood of success, and how to switch the search trail of a possibly failing search with a one that could improve the chances of success dramatically.
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