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An Interface for Agent Supported Conversational Search

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Abhishek Kaushik,

Vishal Bhat Ramachandra,

Gareth J. F. JonesAuthors Info & Claims

CHIIR '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Pages 452 - 456

https://doi.org/10.1145/3343413.3377942

Published: 14 March 2020 Publication History

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Recent years have seen a growth in interest in the development of conversational search systems intended to support users in their information seeking activities using incremental iterative dialogue-based search. This work has primarily focused on communication of information exclusively via spoken dialogue. While this is sufficient for simple question type queries, it is an inefficient means of engagement for more complex or exploratory queries. We introduce a prototype multi-view search interface which combines a conversational search assistant with an extended standard graphical search interface.

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An Interface for Agent Supported Conversational Search
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User interface design

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CHIIR '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

March 2020

596 pages

ISBN:9781450368926

DOI:10.1145/3343413

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University of British Columbia, Canada
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University of Regina, Canada
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