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The exploratory study investigates a virtual reality interface for opportunistic discovery for young people. We recruited ten volunteer students, who performed a pre-assigned information search task in a VR library which consists of about 1500 web sites depicted as books organized on the shelves. We calculated a metric for opportunistic discovery of information (ODI) based on the distance of books chosen by the participants from those initially found by a conventional search. The VR interface supported ODI more than do conventional search engines.
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Beheshti, J., Large, A. (2011). An Interface for Opportunistic Discovery of Information for Young People. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Applications. HCI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6764. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21619-0_66
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