Avaliação de ferramentas de busca na web baseadas em visualização de informaçães

  • Authors:

  • Isabel Cristina Siqueira da Silva;Carla M. D. S. Freitas

  • Affiliations:

  • Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis (UNIRITTER), Porto Alegre, RS Brasil;Instituto de Informática - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS Brasil

  • Venue:
  • IHC '06 Proceedings of VII Brazilian symposium on Human factors in computing systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Web search engines are daily used with a variety of purposes. Usually, searches are submitted based on few terms and the results are dozens of links listed through several pages. Different criteria are used by the search engines to establish the order in which the links appear in this list. Often, the user has to browse the list until finding the relevant information. This scenario increases the need of alternative forms of displaying search results. Although internet services become more attractive when providing information through graphical representations, surprisingly very few initiatives have been devoted to the practical use of visual representations of search results. The present work addresses this issue by presenting a study about the experience and satisfaction of subjects when using two web search tools which display their results graphically. This study is a step towards the identification of requirements for visual tools