Information retrieval interaction
Information retrieval interaction
Scatter/Gather: a cluster-based approach to browsing large document collections
SIGIR '92 Proceedings of the 15th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Task complexity affects information seeking and use
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Proportional search interface usability measures
Proceedings of the third Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search
Exploratory search: from finding to understanding
Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search
mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search
Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
FacetBrowser: a user interface for complex search tasks
MM '08 Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia
A Simulated User Study of Image Browsing Using High-Level Classification
SAMT '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies: Semantic Multimedia
A comparative survey of Personalised Information Retrieval and Adaptive Hypermedia techniques
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A subjunctive exploratory search interface to support media studies researchers
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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With the increasing importance of search systems on the web, there is a continuing push to design interfaces which are a better match with the kinds of real-world tasks in which users are engaged. In this paper, we consider how broad, complex search tasks may be supported via the search interface. In particular, we consider search tasks which may be composed of multiple aspects, or multiple related subtasks. For example, in decision making tasks the user may investigate multiple possible solutions before settling on a single, final solution, while other tasks, such as report writing, may involve searching on multiple interrelated topics. A search interface is presented which is designed to support such broad search tasks, allowing a user to create search aspects, each of which models an independent subtask of some larger task. The interface is built on the intuition that users should be able to structure their searching environment when engaged on complex search tasks, where the act of structuring and organization may aid the user in understanding his or her task. A user study was carried out which compared our aspectual interface to a standard web-search interface. The results suggest that an aspectual interface can aid users when engaged in broad search tasks where the search aspects must be identified during searching; for a task where search aspects were pre-defined, no advantage over the baseline was found. Results for a decision making task were less clear cut, but show some evidence for improved task performance.