10.task genres of special interest
Read these to prepare for class discussion
- p. 22, The Principle of Affordance and p. 40, The Principle of Chunking in Universal principles of design
FOCUSED/ANALYTICAL SEARCHING
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Marchionini, G., & White, R. (2007).
Find what you need, understand what you find.
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 23(3), 205-238.
DATA ENTRY
- Jarrett, C. (2000). Designing usable forms: The three-layer model of the form.
Some interesting examples of searching/browsing interfaces (we'll examine during class)
- Starfields and dynamic queries ⇒ Shneiderman, B. (1999, February 4). Dynamic queries, starfield displays, and the path to Spotfire
- Dynamic Queries Demos ⇒ available via the Open Video Repository
- Previews and overviews of a large collection ⇒ Library of Congress America Memory Project Collection Finder
- An overview of a collection ⇒ Nation, D. (1998). WebTOC. CHI 98 video program : making the impossible possible (Los Angeles, California, April 18-23, 1998). SILS Library video, 45-V117. Available via the Open Video Repository.
- Hyperbolic browser ⇒ Lamping, J., & Rao, R. (1996). Visualizing large trees using the hyperbolic browser. Xerox PARC. CHI 96 video program. Available via the Open Video Repository
- Baby name visualization
- Scatter/gather approach to IR ⇒ Hearst, M. (n.d.) A scatter/gather example.
- Grokker. Outline and map views of results
- Tilebars for representing search results ⇒ Hearst, M. (n.d.) TileBars examples
- Tilebars, video demo ⇒ Hearst, M. A., & Pedersen, J. O. (1996). Visualizing information retrieval results: a demonstration of the TileBar interface. In Common ground, CHI 96 video program (Vancouver, British Columbia, April 13-18, 1996). SILS Library video, 45-V103. Also available via the Open Video Repository.
- ProfileSkim ⇒ Harper, D. J., Koychev, I., Sun, Y, & Pirie, I. (2004). Within-document retrieval: A user-centered evaluation of relevance profiling. Information Retrieval, 7, 265-290. [Brief project description]
- Open Video surrogates. (For example of all available surrogates, search "water" and select "City Water Supply" from the list.)
Useful, but not available online
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Marchionini, G. (1995).
Information Seeking in Electronic Environments.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
[QA76.9.H85 M38 1995]
⇒ Chapter 6, Browsing strategies, p100-120 only -
Allen, B. L. (1996).
Information Tasks: Toward a User-Centered Approach to Information Systems.
San Diego: Academic Press.
[QA76.9.U83 A5 1996]
⇒ Chapter 5, Expressing information needs, p126-145 only
⇒ Chapter 7, Information tasks: interacting with information systems, p188-200 only -
Mayhew, D. J. (1992).
Principles and Guidelines in Software User Interface Design.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ; Prentice Hall.
[QA76.9.U83 M39 1992]
⇒ Chapter 5, Dialog styles: Fill-in forms, 172-183 only
⇒ Chapter 6, Dialog styles: Question and answer, 216-222 only
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