Informing through User-Centered Exploratory Search and Human-Computer Interaction Strategies

A user-centered approach to evaluating human interaction with Web search engines: an exploratory study

A growing body of studies is developing approaches to evaluating human interaction with Web search engines, including the usability and effectiveness of Web search tools. This study explores a user-centered approach to the evaluation of the Web search engine Inquirus – a Web metasearch tool developed by researchers from the NEC Research Institute. The goal of the study reported in this paper wa...

User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction

Supporting Exploratory Search by User-Centered Interactive Data Mining

A core task in e-discovery scenarios is to explore and mine large distributed heterogeneous information archives. Therefore, very often an exploration and analysis of on-the-fly generated subsets, gathered e.g. from mining, filtering or search operations, is necessary. This requires performant and user-friendly ways to interactively integrate, mine and explore. However, Data Mining and Human Co...

Supporting Exploratory Search Through User Modeling

Exploratory search is becoming more common as the web is used more increasingly as a medium for learning and discovery. Compared to traditional known-item search, exploratory search is more challenging and difficult to support because it initiates with poorly defined search goals, while the user knowledge and information-needs constantly change throughout the search process. Although informatio...

Designing the user interface, strategies for effective human-computer interaction