Week 8 Reading Notes: User interaction and visualization

1.       Effective human-computer interface

(1)     Design principles: offer informative feedback

(2)     Reduce working memory load

(3)     Provide alternative interfaces for novice and expert users.

Visualization, Evaluating Interactive Systems

2.       Information Access Process

3.       Starting Point

List of collections, overviews; examples, dialogs and wizards; automated source selection

4.       Query specification

5.       Context

Document surrogates, query term hits, superbook, categories, using hyperlinks to organize retrieval results, tables

6.       Relevance judgements

Interfaces, studies of user interaction, group relevance judgments, pseudo-relevance judgment feedback

7.       Interface support for search process

String matching, window management, example systems