Usability of OPACs and retrieval engines*

What is HCI?

Tenets of HCI

Evaluating HCI

ISP Overview

Outline

Query specification

VQuery (Jones 98)

Filter / Flow model

Against a controlled vocabulary

Tiles (Anick et al. 90)

Query by Example

Faceted Metadata

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Geographic queries

Geospatial queries

Results display and integration

Keyword in Context (KWIC)

Tilebars (Hearst 95)

Infocrystal (Spoerri 95)

More on Infocrystal

Superbook

Cha-cha

Tablelens (InXight)

Cartographic Representations

Scatter / Gather

Scatter / Gather

Visualizing Hierarchies

Summarization atop IR

Merging Document Topic Trees

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More on faceted interfaces

Multiviews via Magic Lenses

Relevance feedback

Query History

Conclusions

To think about