Towards an integrated information environment with open hypermedia systems
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
The relationship between recall and precision
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Adapting a full-text information retrieval system to the computer troubleshooting domain
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
User interface directions for the Web
Communications of the ACM
Internet browsing and searching: user evaluations of category map and concept space techniques
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: artificial intelligence techniques for emerging information systems applications
Integration of manufacturing information using open hypermedia
Computers in Industry - Special issue on multimedia in manufacturing
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
Post-Capitalist Society
Usability Engineering
Text Information Retrieval Systems
Text Information Retrieval Systems
Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach
Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach
Issues and Applications of Case Based Reasoning to Design
Issues and Applications of Case Based Reasoning to Design
CBR for Document Retrieval: The FALLQ Project
ICCBR '97 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development
Human elements in information system design for knowledge workers
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
The problem of information overload in business organisations: a review of the literature
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Facilitating design learning through faceted classification of in-service information
Advanced Engineering Informatics
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The two main ways to search for information in electronic document collections are by using free-text retrieval search engines or browsing information that has been organized into predefined organizational structures. However, each of these approaches has limitations. Using word or phrase search, users are faced with a compromise between overly broad searches returning an excessive amount of information or overly narrow searches that may fail to return relevant information. Browsing organizational structures is dependent on the user's knowledge of the structures, and a user may find it difficult to refine searches. This paper introduces a user interface based approach to the browsing of hierarchically organized information entities that avoids these problems by allowing the incremental narrowing down of a set of search results and by pruning the organizational structure after each user selection to show the consequences of the selection. The effect is to present to the user at all times only that part of the organizational structure that will lead to a nonnull selection. The approach is called no zero match (NZM) browsing. The paper presents the computational basis of NZM browsing before describing a trial implementation of the approach and presenting three case studies, which represent common search situations in an engineering context.