Creating exploratory tasks for a faceted search interface (original) (raw)

Improving the usability of faceted exploratory search tools

TELKOMNIKA Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control, 2022

For some years now, the faceted exploratory search has faced tremendous challenges to devise a simple, instantly understandable, and usable user interface to explore the vast amount of data and information available on the Internet. In our previous research, we have indicated certain burdens with some of the existing approaches. Therefore, in this research, we are trying to uncover the attributes that influence users to use the faceted feature of the exploratory search technique. In this paper, we presented several key elements of existing search engine systems, the best of their major features were explored, and guidelines that will help to improve the usability of faceted exploratory search have been suggested and offers a further understanding of the fundamental characteristics of the faceted search, which shows the motivations to use the search, also presented the main parts of a pluggable search system.

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2013

We examined the effect of introducing search results overview in the form of a tag cloud displayed next to a textual search result list. Does such an overview make users faster in search task execution and lower the cognitive effort required to make progress? We use cognitive effort measures derived from eye tracking data to examine the effect of providing a tag cloud-like summary on a user's information search and navigation behaviors. The results show that a results overview helps a user become faster and more efficient. One contribution of this work is to describe the use of eye tracking data to create a simple model of reading and measures of cognitive effort. Another is to use those measures to explain the differences in interaction with two information search interfaces.

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2012

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