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orienteering: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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Information retrieval

directed searching in small steps that uses local context to home in on a target, instead of stating the full need in one query.

In information retrieval, orienteering refers to directed searching in small steps that uses local context to home in on a target, instead of stating the full need in one query. This meaning comes from Teevan (2004) in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.[1]

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context4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs information4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs need3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Teevan, J., Alvarado, C., Ackerman, M. S., & Karger, D. R. (2004). The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/985692.985745

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