Design and Evaluation of a Prototype User Interface Supporting Sharing of Search Knowledge in Information Retrieval

Zhang, Xiangmin, Li, Yuelin and Jewell, Sarah Design and Evaluation of a Prototype User Interface Supporting Sharing of Search Knowledge in Information Retrieval., 2005 . In 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Charlotte (US), 28 October - 2 November 2005. [Conference paper]

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This paper describes a prototype user interface system, CIRR tool, which allows searchers to share their relevance judgments, search queries, and search results by providing a system Task Console with a “Group Report” feature. The system was developed based on the assumption that knowledge sharing in information retrieval (IR) is helpful and important to improve search performance. A usability evaluation of this system was conducted. The test results show that in general the system is easy to learn and use. However, some usability problems are also observed. The paper discusses these issues and proposes future research directions.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: information relevancy ; user communication sharing ; user interaction
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BI. User interfaces, usability.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BD. Information society.
Depositing user: Norm Medeiros
Date deposited: 08 Feb 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:02
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7040

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