Search User Interface Design

✍ Scribed by Max L.Wilson

• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Series: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Search User Interfaces (SUIs) represent the gateway between people who have a task to complete, and the repositories of information and data stored around the world. Not surprisingly, therefore, there are many communities who have a vested interest in the way SUIs are designed. There are people who study how humans search for information, and people who study how humans use computers. There are people who study good user interface design, and people who design aesthetically pleasing user interfaces. There are also people who curate and manage valuable information resources, and people who design effective algorithms to retrieve results from them. While it would be easy for one community to reject another for their limited ability to design a good SUI, the truth is that they all can, and they all have made valuable contributions. Fundamentally, therefore, we must accept that designing a great SUI means leveraging the knowledge and skills from all of these communities. The aim of this book is to at least acknowledge, if not integrate, all of these perspectives to bring the reader into a multidisciplinary mindset for how we should think about SUI design. Further, this book aims to provide the reader with a framework for thinking about how different innovations each contribute to the overall design of a SUI. With this framework and a multidisciplinary perspective in hand, the book then continues by reviewing: early, successful, established, and experimental concepts for SUI design. The book then concludes by discussing how we can analyse and evaluate the on-going developments in SUI design, as this multidisciplinary area of research moves forwards. Finally, in reviewing these many SUIs and SUI features, the book finishes by extracting a series of 20 SUI design recommendations that are listed in the conclusions. Table of Contents: Introduction / Searcher-Computer Interaction / Early Search User Interfaces / Modern Search User Interfaces / Experimental Search User Interfaces / Evaluating Search User Interfaces / Conclusions

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Figure Credits......Page 17
Introduction......Page 21
From Information Retrieval to Exploratory Search......Page 22
Our Everyday Experiences of Search......Page 23
A Framework for Thinking about Search Features......Page 24
Key Terms......Page 26
Related Disciplines in SUI Design......Page 29
Getting it Right – for the User......Page 32
User Interface Design Principles......Page 33
Summary......Page 35
Conversation and Dialogue......Page 37
Browsing......Page 39
Form Filling......Page 40
Boolean Searching......Page 41
Informational Advances......Page 42
The Onset of Modern SUIs......Page 45
Summary......Page 47
The Search Box......Page 49
Adding Metadata......Page 53
Control Features......Page 61
Corrections......Page 62
Sorting......Page 65
Filters......Page 67
Grouping......Page 68
Standard Results Lists......Page 70
2D Displays of Results......Page 78
3D Displays of Results......Page 85
Additional Informational Features......Page 87
Personalisable Features......Page 93
Current-Search Personalisation......Page 94
Persistent Search Personalisation......Page 95
Socially Affected Personalisation......Page 97
Summary......Page 98
Experimental Search User Interfaces......Page 101
Real-Time Search and Social Media......Page 102
Exploratory Search and Sensemaking......Page 104
Mobile Search......Page 107
Re-Finding, Desktop and Personal Search......Page 108
Summary......Page 110
IR Evaluation......Page 113
Empirical User Studies......Page 114
Analytical Approaches......Page 116
Choosing an Approach......Page 117
Summary......Page 118
Revisiting How We Think about SUIs......Page 119
Summary of Design Recommendations......Page 120
Concluding Remarks......Page 122
Bibliography......Page 123
Author's Biography......Page 145