We illustrate the use of Querium, a novel search system designed to support people’s collaborative and multisession search tasks, in the context of the HCIR 2011 Search Challenge. This report demonstrates how a Querium’s interface and search engine can be used to search for documents in an open-ended, exploratory task. We illustrate the use of relevance feedback, faceted search, query fusion, a...

In most of diaspora literature there is an attempt to retrieve the past. This makes one measure time in many ways, different calendars, change seasons, past encounters narrated through wars, defeats, and disasters. It remembered family history, ancestral heritage, nostalgia, memory even national interaction portrays immigrants caught flight memories, relationships images. The relocation has its...