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Search user interface design /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Max L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [San Rafael, Calif.] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2012]
Series:Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services ; #20.
Subjects:
Search engines > Design.
User interfaces (Computer systems) > Design.
COMPUTERS / Online Services / Resource Directories.
COMPUTERS / System Administration / Storage & Retrieval.
search
information seeking
user interfaces
user experience
interaction
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Figure credits
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 From information retrieval to exploratory search
  • 1.2 Our everyday experiences of search
  • 1.3 A framework for thinking about search features
  • 1.4 Structure of book
  • 1.4.1 Key terms
  • 2. Searcher-computer interaction
  • 2.1 Related disciplines in SUI design
  • 2.2 How we should think about SUIs
  • 2.2.1 Getting it right, for the user
  • 2.2.2 The effects of the technology
  • 2.3 User interface design principles
  • 2.4 Summary
  • 3. Early search user interfaces
  • 3.1 A brief early history of SUIs
  • 3.1.1 Conversation and dialogue
  • 3.1.2 Browsing
  • 3.1.3 Form filling
  • 3.1.4 Boolean searching
  • 3.1.5 Informational advances
  • 3.2 The onset of modern SUIs
  • 3.3 Summary
  • 4. Modern search user interfaces
  • 4.1 Input features
  • 4.1.1 The search box
  • 4.1.2 Adding metadata
  • 4.2 Control features
  • 4.2.1 Interactive query changes
  • 4.2.2 Corrections
  • 4.2.3 Sorting
  • 4.2.4 Filters
  • 4.2.5 Grouping
  • 4.3 Informational features
  • 4.3.1 Standard results lists
  • 4.3.2 2D displays of results
  • 4.3.3 3D displays of results
  • 4.3.4 Additional informational features
  • 4.4 Personalisable features
  • 4.4.1 Current-search personalisation
  • 4.4.2 Persistent search personalisation
  • 4.4.3 Socially affected personalisation
  • 4.5 Summary
  • 5. Experimental search user interfaces
  • 5.1 Collaborative search
  • 5.2 Real-time search and social media
  • 5.3 Exploratory search and sensemaking
  • 5.4 Mobile search
  • 5.5 Re-finding, desktop and personal search
  • 5.6 Summary
  • 6. Evaluating search user interfaces
  • 6.1 IR vs. empirical vs. analytical approaches
  • 6.1.1 IR evaluation
  • 6.1.2 Empirical user studies
  • 6.1.3 Analytical approaches
  • 6.2 Choosing an approach
  • 6.3 Summary
  • 7. Conclusions
  • 7.1 Revisiting how we think about SUIs
  • 7.2 Innovating and evaluating SUIs
  • 7.3 Summary of design recommendations
  • 7.4 Concluding remarks
  • Bibliography
  • Author's biography.