HowToReadResearchPapers.ppt

User Interfaces IR Readings Review Googling Further HomeFinder Live Demos! Searching for images Feature detection for images is difficult Image formats Image content Disagreement on classification of images Apple, Chair, Football game, Beautiful How does image search work now? Text near the graphic on a Web page ALT tag file name Advanced searching Intitle, inurl, filetype, related, color Best news: you can see your results Image Search in Context We’re used to seeing associated images Why would be be searching for an image? Clip art, reference, learning? Images as additional context News eCommerce Books clarification or verification Some searching is focused on images Maps Paths, location context User Interfaces Visualization “Communication between human information seekers and information retrieval systems” p 257 How should the UI help with the seeking goal? Often in very standardized ways With less (if any) mediation in the process People have more variance than systems IR systems can be fast, can their UI be better? Principles of UI Design ( IR) Offer informative feedback How can you be satisfied unless you already know: The answer? Where the answer is? Comparisons to other searches? What others say or do? Permit easy undo Allow for backtracking (the Back button) Make mistakes easy to correct or recover from Typing? Clicking? Principles of UI Design 2 Allow feedback control Expose the UI functionality Make functionality clear distinct Reduce working memory load Show progress in task (results count, #s) Show context of task (keywords for editing) Support experts novices Let user select the right interface Reveal UI system functionality in phases Amount of information shown, preferred What about Visualization? Interactive GUIs are a good start Graphical views of information can provide an overview Is a picture (of an action) worth 1000 words? Is a picture of a dataset? Graphics help with abstraction, how can they represent specifics? Visual metaphors may