Improving Exploratory Search Interfaces: Adding Value or Information Overload? (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
One method for supporting more exploratory forms of search has been to include a compound of new interface features, such as facets, previews, collection points, synchronous communication, and...
Evaluating Collaborative Search Interfaces with Information Seeking Theory (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
Despite the many implicit references to the social aspects of search within the history of Information Seeking and Retrieval research, there has been relatively little work that has specifically...
Evaluating Collaborative Search Interfaces with Information Seeking Theory (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
Despite the many implicit references to the social aspects of search within the history of Information Seeking and Retrieval research, there has been relatively little work that has specifically...
Backward Highlighting: Enhancing Faceted Search (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Andre, Paul, Schraefel, M.c.
Directional faceted browsers, like the popular columnar browser iTunes, let a person pick an instance from any col-umn-facet to start their search for music. The expected ef-fect is that any columns...
Backward Highlighting: Enhancing Faceted Search (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Andre, Paul, Schraefel, M.c.
Directional faceted browsers, like the popular columnar browser iTunes, let a person pick an instance from any col-umn-facet to start their search for music. The expected ef-fect is that any columns...
This Time It's Personal: from PIM to the Perfect Digital Assistant (2008)
Schraefel, M.c., André, Paul, Van Kleek, Max
Interacting with digital PIM tools like calendars, to-do lists, address books, bookmarks and so on, is a highly manual, often repetitive and frequently tedious process. Despite increases in memory...
This Time It's Personal: from PIM to the Perfect Digital Assistant (2008)
Schraefel, M.c., André, Paul, Van Kleek, Max
Interacting with digital PIM tools like calendars, to-do lists, address books, bookmarks and so on, is a highly manual, often repetitive and frequently tedious process. Despite increases in memory...
A Validated Framework for Measuring Interface Support for Interactive Information Seeking (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
In this paper we present the validation of an evaluation framework that models the support provided by search systems for different types of user and their expected types of seeking behavior. Factors...
A Longitudinal Study of Exploratory and Keyword Search (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
Digital libraries are concerned with improving the access to collections to make their service more effective and valuable to users. In this paper, we present the results of a four-week longitudinal...
Rich Tags: Cross-Repository Browsing (2008)
Smith, Daniel Alexander, Lambert, Joe, Schraefel, M C
We present RichTags, a system for cross-site browsing and exploration of digital repositories. Categorical and faceted search across repositories is poorly supported, especially compared to the...
A Validated Framework for Measuring Interface Support for Interactive Information Seeking (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
In this paper we present the validation of an evaluation framework that models the support provided by search systems for different types of user and their expected types of seeking behavior. Factors...
A Longitudinal Study of Exploratory and Keyword Search (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
Digital libraries are concerned with improving the access to collections to make their service more effective and valuable to users. In this paper, we present the results of a four-week longitudinal...
EPrintCast – A Document Repository Podcast (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
In this paper, we describe a simple method of reusing an EPrints RSS2.0 feed and Dublin Core meta-data to produce a synthetic-voice podcast that includes both citation and abstract details, which can...
EPrintCast – A Document Repository Podcast (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
In this paper, we describe a simple method of reusing an EPrints RSS2.0 feed and Dublin Core meta-data to produce a synthetic-voice podcast that includes both citation and abstract details, which can...
Rich Tags: Cross-Repository Browsing (2008)
Smith, Daniel Alexander, Lambert, Joe, Schraefel, M C
We present RichTags, a system for cross-site browsing and exploration of digital repositories. Categorical and faceted search across repositories is poorly supported, especially compared to the...
From Keyword Search to Exploration: How Result Visualization Aids Discovery on the Web (2008)
Kules, William, Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c., Shneiderman, Ben
A key to the Web's success is the power of search. The elegant way in which search results are returned is usually remarkably effective. However, for exploratory search in which users need to learn,...
From Keyword Search to Exploration: How Result Visualization Aids Discovery on the Web (2008)
Kules, William, Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c., Shneiderman, Ben
A key to the Web's success is the power of search. The elegant way in which search results are returned is usually remarkably effective. However, for exploratory search in which users need to learn,...
Structured Inspections of Search Interfaces: A Practitioners Guide (2008)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
In this paper we present a practitioners guide on how to apply a new inspection framework that evaluates search interfaces for their support of different searcher types. Vast amounts of money are...
AtomsMasher: PeRSSonalized Information Delivery and Management on the Web (2007)
Van Kleek, Max, André, Paul, A. Smith, Daniel, L. Wilson, Max, Bernstein, Michael, Karger, David, ...
Over the past two years, social networking sites have fostered a new kind of data publication: personal feeds about schedule, location, music playing, activity and so on. While these feeds have been...
AtomsMasher: PeRSSonalized Information Delivery and Management on the Web (2007)
Van Kleek, Max, André, Paul, A. Smith, Daniel, L. Wilson, Max, Bernstein, Michael, Karger, David, ...
Over the past two years, social networking sites have fostered a new kind of data publication: personal feeds about schedule, location, music playing, activity and so on. While these feeds have been...
Spatial Consistency and Contextual Cues for Incidental Learning in Browser Design (2007)
Wilson, Max L., André, Paul, Smith, Daniel A., Schraefel, M.c.
This paper introduces the Backward Highlighting technique for mitigating an identified flaw in directional column-faceted browsers like iTunes. Further, the technique significantly enhances the...
Spatial Consistency and Contextual Cues for Incidental Learning in Browser Design (2007)
Wilson, Max L., André, Paul, Smith, Daniel A., Schraefel, M.c.
This paper introduces the Backward Highlighting technique for mitigating an identified flaw in directional column-faceted browsers like iTunes. Further, the technique significantly enhances the...
Evaluating Advanced Search Interfaces using Established Information-Seeking Models (2007)
Wilson, Max L, Schraefel, M.c., White, Ryen W.
When users have poorly defined or complex goals search interfaces offering only keyword searching facilities provide inadequate support to help them reach their information-seeking objectives. The...
Evaluating Advanced Search Interfaces using Established Information-Seeking Models (2007)
Wilson, Max L, Schraefel, M.c., White, Ryen W.
When users have poorly defined or complex goals search interfaces offering only keyword searching facilities provide inadequate support to help them reach their information-seeking objectives. The...
Evaluating Advanced Search Interfaces using Established Information-Seeking Models (2007)
Wilson, Max L, Schraefel, M.c., White, Ryen W.
When users have poorly defined or complex goals search interfaces offering only keyword searching facilities provide inadequate support to help them reach their information-seeking objectives. The...
Making Tea is a design elitation method developed specifically to deal with situations in which (1) the designers do not share domain or artefact knowledge with design-domain experts, (2) the...
Bridging the Gap: Using IR Models for Evaluating Exploratory Search Interfaces (2007)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
Exploratory Search Interfaces are being designed to support increasingly high-level search activities, such as comparison and aggregation. This position paper suggests that the history of research...
Management of Personal Information Scraps (2007)
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Schraefel, M.c., Karger, David
We introduce research on information scraps – short, self-contained personal notes that fall outside of traditional filing schemes. We report on a preliminary study of information scraps’ nature...
Bubbling Menus: A Selective Mechanism for Accessing Hierarchical Drop-Down Menus (2007)
Tsandilas, Theophanis, Schraefel, M.c.
This paper introduces bubbling menus, a new design for pull-down cascading menus. Bubbling menus combine the bubble cursor [1] with directional mouse-gesture tech-niques to facilitate the access of...
Evaluating Advanced Search Interfaces using Established Information-Seeking Models (2007)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c., White, Ryen
When users have poorly defined or complex goals, keyword searching may not provide sufficient support. Subsequently, more advanced systems are being developed to support richer modes of search. This...
Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale (2007)
André, Paul, Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, M.c.
Temporal events, while often discrete, also have interesting relationships within and across times: larger events are often collections of smaller more discrete events (battles within wars; artists'...
GUI— Phooey! : The Case for Text Input (2007)
Van Kleek, Max, Bernstein, Michael, Karger, David, Schraefel, M.c.
Information cannot be found if it is not entered. Research shows that existing rich graphical application approaches interfere with user input in many ways, forcing complex interactions to enter...
What is the Analogue for The Semantic Web, And Why is Finding One Important (2007)
This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow, and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, such as Information Retrieval, Design and Human Computer Interaction, it needs to...
Making Tea is a design elitation method developed specifically to deal with situations in which (1) the designers do not share domain or artefact knowledge with design-domain experts, (2) the...
Bridging the Gap: Using IR Models for Evaluating Exploratory Search Interfaces (2007)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
Exploratory Search Interfaces are being designed to support increasingly high-level search activities, such as comparison and aggregation. This position paper suggests that the history of research...
Management of Personal Information Scraps (2007)
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Schraefel, M.c., Karger, David
We introduce research on information scraps – short, self-contained personal notes that fall outside of traditional filing schemes. We report on a preliminary study of information scraps’ nature...
Bubbling Menus: A Selective Mechanism for Accessing Hierarchical Drop-Down Menus (2007)
Tsandilas, Theophanis, Schraefel, M.c.
This paper introduces bubbling menus, a new design for pull-down cascading menus. Bubbling menus combine the bubble cursor [1] with directional mouse-gesture tech-niques to facilitate the access of...
Evaluating Advanced Search Interfaces using Established Information-Seeking Models (2007)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c., White, Ryen
When users have poorly defined or complex goals, keyword searching may not provide sufficient support. Subsequently, more advanced systems are being developed to support richer modes of search. This...
Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale (2007)
André, Paul, Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, M.c.
Temporal events, while often discrete, also have interesting relationships within and across times: larger events are often collections of smaller more discrete events (battles within wars; artists'...
GUI— Phooey! : The Case for Text Input (2007)
Van Kleek, Max, Bernstein, Michael, Karger, David, Schraefel, M.c.
Information cannot be found if it is not entered. Research shows that existing rich graphical application approaches interfere with user input in many ways, forcing complex interactions to enter...
What is the Analogue for The Semantic Web, And Why is Finding One Important (2007)
This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow, and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, such as Information Retrieval, Design and Human Computer Interaction, it needs to...
What is an Analogue for the Semantic Web and Why is Having One Important? (2007)
This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, it needs to develop an analogue that will help people not only understand what it is,...
Making Tea is a design elitation method developed specifically to deal with situations in which (1) the designers do not share domain or artefact knowledge with design-domain experts, (2) the...
Bridging the Gap: Using IR Models for Evaluating Exploratory Search Interfaces (2007)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
Exploratory Search Interfaces are being designed to support increasingly high-level search activities, such as comparison and aggregation. This position paper suggests that the history of research...
Management of Personal Information Scraps (2007)
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Schraefel, M.c., Karger, David
We introduce research on information scraps – short, self-contained personal notes that fall outside of traditional filing schemes. We report on a preliminary study of information scraps’ nature...
Bubbling Menus: A Selective Mechanism for Accessing Hierarchical Drop-Down Menus (2007)
Tsandilas, Theophanis, Schraefel, M.c.
This paper introduces bubbling menus, a new design for pull-down cascading menus. Bubbling menus combine the bubble cursor [1] with directional mouse-gesture tech-niques to facilitate the access of...
Evaluating Advanced Search Interfaces using Established Information-Seeking Models (2007)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c., White, Ryen
When users have poorly defined or complex goals, keyword searching may not provide sufficient support. Subsequently, more advanced systems are being developed to support richer modes of search. This...
Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale (2007)
André, Paul, Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, M.c.
Temporal events, while often discrete, also have interesting relationships within and across times: larger events are often collections of smaller more discrete events (battles within wars; artists'...
GUI— Phooey! : The Case for Text Input (2007)
Van Kleek, Max, Bernstein, Michael, Karger, David, Schraefel, M.c.
Information cannot be found if it is not entered. Research shows that existing rich graphical application approaches interfere with user input in many ways, forcing complex interactions to enter...
What is the Analogue for The Semantic Web, And Why is Finding One Important (2007)
This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow, and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, such as Information Retrieval, Design and Human Computer Interaction, it needs to...
Making Tea is a design elitation method developed specifically to deal with situations in which (1) the designers do not share domain or artefact knowledge with design-domain experts, (2) the...
Bridging the Gap: Using IR Models for Evaluating Exploratory Search Interfaces (2007)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c.
Exploratory Search Interfaces are being designed to support increasingly high-level search activities, such as comparison and aggregation. This position paper suggests that the history of research...
Management of Personal Information Scraps (2007)
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Schraefel, M.c., Karger, David
We introduce research on information scraps – short, self-contained personal notes that fall outside of traditional filing schemes. We report on a preliminary study of information scraps’ nature...
Bubbling Menus: A Selective Mechanism for Accessing Hierarchical Drop-Down Menus (2007)
Tsandilas, Theophanis, Schraefel, M.c.
This paper introduces bubbling menus, a new design for pull-down cascading menus. Bubbling menus combine the bubble cursor [1] with directional mouse-gesture tech-niques to facilitate the access of...
Evaluating Advanced Search Interfaces using Established Information-Seeking Models (2007)
Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c., White, Ryen
When users have poorly defined or complex goals, keyword searching may not provide sufficient support. Subsequently, more advanced systems are being developed to support richer modes of search. This...
Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale (2007)
André, Paul, Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, M.c.
Temporal events, while often discrete, also have interesting relationships within and across times: larger events are often collections of smaller more discrete events (battles within wars; artists'...
GUI— Phooey! : The Case for Text Input (2007)
Van Kleek, Max, Bernstein, Michael, Karger, David, Schraefel, M.c.
Information cannot be found if it is not entered. Research shows that existing rich graphical application approaches interfere with user input in many ways, forcing complex interactions to enter...
What is the Analogue for The Semantic Web, And Why is Finding One Important (2007)
This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow, and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, such as Information Retrieval, Design and Human Computer Interaction, it needs to...
What is an Analogue for the Semantic Web and Why is Having One Important? (2007)
This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, it needs to develop an analogue that will help people not only understand what it is,...
What is an Analogue for the Semantic Web and Why is Having One Important? (2007)
This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, it needs to develop an analogue that will help people not only understand what it is,...
Informal Online Decision Making: Current Practices and Support System Design (2007)
André, Paul, Drucker, Steven, Schraefel, M.c.
Existing group decision support systems are too complex to support lightweight, informal decision making made popular by the amount of information available on the Web. From an examination of related...
Informal Online Decision Making: Current Practices and Support System Design (2007)
André, Paul, Drucker, Steven, Schraefel, M.c.
Existing group decision support systems are too complex to support lightweight, informal decision making made popular by the amount of information available on the Web. From an examination of related...
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Karger, David, Schraefel, M.c.
This paper is a case study of an artifact design and evaluation process; it is a reflection on how right thinking about design methods may at times result in sub-optimal results. Our goal has been to...
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Karger, David, Schraefel, M.c.
This paper is a case study of an artifact design and evaluation process; it is a reflection on how right thinking about design methods may at times result in sub-optimal results. Our goal has been to...
Bubbling menus: a selective mechanism for accessing hierarchical drop-down menus (2007)
Tsandilas, T., Schraefel, M.c.
This paper introduces bubbling menus, a new design for cascading drop-down menus. Bubbling menus combine the bubble cursor [10] with directional mouse-gesture techniques to facilitate the access of...
Tabulator Redux: Writing Into the Semantic Web (2007)
Berners-Lee, T, Hollenbach, J., Lu, K., Presbrey, J., Pru D'ommeaux, E., Schraefel, M.c.
A first category of Semantic Web browsers were designed to present a given dataset (an RDF graph) for perusal, in various forms. These include mSpace, Exhibit, and to a certain extent Haystack. A...
Tabulator Redux: Writing Into the Semantic Web (2007)
Berners-Lee, T, Hollenbach, J., Lu, K., Presbrey, J., Pru D'ommeaux, E., Schraefel, M.c.
A first category of Semantic Web browsers were designed to present a given dataset (an RDF graph) for perusal, in various forms. These include mSpace, Exhibit, and to a certain extent Haystack. A...
Annotation of Heterogenous Media Using OntoMedia (2006)
Lawrence, K. Faith, Jewell, Michael O, Schraefel, M. C., Prugel-Bennett, Adam
While ontologies exist for the annotation of monomedia, interoperability between these schemes is an important issue. The OntoMedia ontology consists of a generic core, capable of representing a...
Annotation of Heterogenous Media Using OntoMedia (2006)
Lawrence, K. Faith, Jewell, Michael O, Schraefel, M. C., Prugel-Bennett, Adam
While ontologies exist for the annotation of monomedia, interoperability between these schemes is an important issue. The OntoMedia ontology consists of a generic core, capable of representing a...
Annotation of Heterogenous Media Using OntoMedia (2006)
Lawrence, K. Faith, Jewell, Michael O, Schraefel, M. C., Prugel-Bennett, Adam
While ontologies exist for the annotation of monomedia, interoperability between these schemes is an important issue. The OntoMedia ontology consists of a generic core, capable of representing a...
Annotation of Heterogenous Media Using OntoMedia (2006)
Lawrence, K. Faith, Jewell, Michael O, Schraefel, M. C., Prugel-Bennett, Adam
While ontologies exist for the annotation of monomedia, interoperability between these schemes is an important issue. The OntoMedia ontology consists of a generic core, capable of representing a...
mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search (2006)
Schraefel, M.c., Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel Alexander
Overview of mSpace interaction approach for presenting exploratory search particularly in the audio domain by using slices, preview cues, and user-determined organization of information from...
Supporting Exploratory Search, Introduction, Special Issue, Communications of the ACM (2006)
White, Ryen W., Kules, Bill, Drucker, Steven M., Schraefel, M.c.
mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search (2006)
Schraefel, M.c., Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel Alexander
Overview of mSpace interaction approach for presenting exploratory search particularly in the audio domain by using slices, preview cues, and user-determined organization of information from...
Supporting Exploratory Search, Introduction, Special Issue, Communications of the ACM (2006)
White, Ryen W., Kules, Bill, Drucker, Steven M., Schraefel, M.c.
mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search (2006)
Schraefel, M.c., Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel Alexander
Overview of mSpace interaction approach for presenting exploratory search particularly in the audio domain by using slices, preview cues, and user-determined organization of information from...