Evaluating the effectiveness of visual user interfaces for information retrieval

Sutcliffe﻿, Alistair; Ennis, Mark; Hu, Jie

doi:10.1006/ijhc.2000.0416

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“…Next to it is the display of the metadata legend b As mentioned previously, graphical representation of search results are: point symbols on top of bull's eye metaphor and metadata mapping on top of the main map / thematic layers. The bull's eye metaphor has been used often in the field of information retrieval to signify the assessment of search results [30], [31]. In case of projecting search results into the bull's eye pane (Fig.…”

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Aim4GDI: Facilitating the Synthesis of GDI Resources through Mapping and Superimpositions of Metadata Summaries

Aditya¹,

Kraak²

2007

Geoinformatica

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In the world of geospatial data infrastructures, geoportals are developed to facilitate access and use of geospatial resources, including data. The design and implementation of effective and efficient geoportals are becoming crucial. Providing possibilities for users to organize and integrate available resources can arguably enhance the process of data discovery and spatial analysis required, and hence, is the focus of this paper. We argue that the synthesis of summaries of distributed datasets, map and feature services through the geoportal can present a coherent view to support data discovery. For this purpose, the atlas metaphor is used as an indexing server and integration interface of summaries. Thematic maps and a storyteller view are accessible through the atlas metaphor. They can be used to provide a supporting context for data discovery and access purposes.

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Section: Search Results Presentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aim4GDI: Facilitating the Synthesis of GDI Resources through Mapping and Superimpositions of Metadata Summaries

Aditya¹,

Kraak²

2007

Geoinformatica

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“…In addition to following these eight conventions, researchers posited the importance of gathering student feedback (Sutcliffe et al 2000a) after rigorous qualitative and quantitative interface testing (Sutcliffe et al 2000b). Hence, the modules were designed in accordance with established empiric research on display design; we included an assessment instrument in one of our evaluations to measure the effectiveness of the display design.…”

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Developing and designing online engineering ethics instruction for international graduate students

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The present project embarked on an educational intervention, consisting of a series of online ethics learning modules, to aid international graduate students in overcoming the acculturation barriers to understanding and inculcating normative ethical obligations associated with engineering practice and research in the United States. A fundamental initial step in the process of helping international, as well as domestic, engineering graduate students embrace ethical obligations is to provide clear instruction on fundamental engineering ethical principles and values relevant in the United States. Most institutes of higher education do not have a cohesive approach to basic graduate engineering ethics instruction, much less materials that have been calibrated for international students (National Science Foundation, http://www.nspe.org/Ethics/index.html, 2009). Herein the authors describe our instructional intervention, as well as to document the development, design, and assessment of the learning modules intended to provide students with a framework for learning ethical precepts and applying them in the engineering field. Think-Aloud Protocol and Cognitive Task Analysis results were used to improve the content modules and learning experience. Initial pilot findings indicate that the content modules increased student knowledge acquisition compared to pre-test performance, indicating a step-forward in the formulation of a useful learning tool for graduate engineering ethics instruction.

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“…Other than supplying users with help menus, training and advisor facilities are also found to be essential for effective search strategies and need to be incorporated to enhance the effectiveness of the retrieval features for information retrieval (Sutcliffe et al, 2000). Shneiderman et al (1998) suggested that systems should also provide relevance feedback, support for successive queries, and keep track of searches in the history buffer to allow review, alteration, and resubmission of earlier searches.…”

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Retrieval features for online databases: common, unique, and expected

Othman

Halim

2004

Online Information Review

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The aims of this study were to identify the retrieval features for online databases; difficulties faced by users; and retrieval features expected by users. A total of 25 databases were surveyed and 40 users were interviewed after the training sessions. Common retrieval features included Boolean operators, phrase searching, match of exact words or phrases, field specific and limit fields searches, truncation, and wildcard. Even though features are offered in many systems, their interpretation and implementation are different. Unique features included lateral searching, density and frequency of terms, reference link, and searching via table of content. The expected features included relevance feedback and term weighting other than those already offered by ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. Such expectations were influenced by the users' background in ICT. Difficulties included application of the retrieval features in searching. Database providers must include the expected features, synonyms linked to terms in the thesaurus, and extensive search examples.

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Evaluating the effectiveness of visual user interfaces for information retrieval

Cited by 57 publications

References 10 publications

Aim4GDI: Facilitating the Synthesis of GDI Resources through Mapping and Superimpositions of Metadata Summaries

Aim4GDI: Facilitating the Synthesis of GDI Resources through Mapping and Superimpositions of Metadata Summaries

Developing and designing online engineering ethics instruction for international graduate students

Retrieval features for online databases: common, unique, and expected

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