Week 8: Reading Notes

MIR Chapter 10
10.1
The human side of the information seeking process and the aspects of this process that can best be supported by the user interface.

10.2
Design principles for human-computer interaction:

• Offer information feedback
• Reduce working memory load
• Provide alternative interfaces for novice and expert users

Notions related to information visualization:

• Using icons and color highlighting
• brushing and linking
• panning and zooming
• focus-plus-context
• magic lenses
• use of animation

An important aspect of human-computer interaction is the methodology for evaluation of user interface techniques.
Precision and recall measures have been widely used for comparing the ranking results of non-interactive systems.

10.3 The Information Access Process
Steps:

1. Start with an information need
2. Select a system and collections to search on
3. Formulate a query
4. Send the query to the system
5. Receive the results in the form of information items
6. Scan, evaluate, and interpret the results
7. Either stop, or,
8. Reformulate the query and go to step 4

10.4 Many lists of collection