Usability guidelines for desktop search engines

Authors:
Manuel Burghardt;Tim Schneidermeier;Christian Wolff
Affiliations:
Media Informatics Group, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany;Media Informatics Group, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany;Media Informatics Group, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Venue:
HCI'13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-Computer Interaction: human-centred design approaches, methods, tools, and environments - Volume Part I
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In this article we describe a usability evaluation of eight desktop search engines (DSEs). We used the heuristic walkthrough method to gather usability problems as well as individual strengths and weaknesses of the tested search engines. The results of the evaluation are integrated into a set of 30 design guidelines for user-friendly DSEs.