TY - JOUR AU - Préfontaine, Gabrielle AU - Bartlett, Joan C. AU - Toms, Elaine G. PY - 2013/10/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A Taxonomy of the Functions Supported by Browsing Facilitators JF - Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI JA - CAIS/ACSI VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.29173/cais500 UR - https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ojs.cais-acsi.ca/index.php/cais-asci/article/view/500 SP - AB - <span>Browsing is a key method by which humans obtain information, yet it is often neglected in the design of search interfaces. In this paper, we selectively examine the literature on tools developed to facilitate browsing and propose the root of a taxonomic tree of the processes that browsing facilitators need to support. Finally, we explore how a select set of browsing tools currently support these functions.</span> ER -