Critères d'évaluation pour les interfaces des systèmes de recherche d'information

Visualization of search results is an essential step in the Information Retrieval process. Indeed Information User Interfaces are used as a link between users and Information Retrieval Systems, and so they enable to give sense to the results for users. Due to the importance that takes visualization of search results, many interfaces (which can be textual, in 2D or in 3D) have been proposed in the last decade. However, although some evaluations of these interfaces were proposed, they are too rare and not really interpretable (and comparable) due to the big heterogeneity of systems and due to the absence of an evaluation framework. So, in this paper, we propose to define a set of criteria which take users, tasks and system into account. MOTS-CLÉS : interface utilisateur d’information, interface de restitution de résultats de recherche, systèmes de recherche d’information, critères d’évaluation et de comparaison.