INLS 718

10.Task genres of special interest

Monday, 15 Feb 2010

Required reading

FOCUSED/ANALYTICAL SEARCHING

[ this book is not currently locatable on the library shelves. Don't worry about this reading ]
Allen, B. L. (1996). Information Tasks: Toward a User-Centered Approach to Information Systems. San Diego: Academic Press. [QA76.9.U83 A5 1996]
⇒ Chapter 5, Expressing information needs, p126-145 only

Marchionini, G., & White, R. (2007). Find what you need, understand what you find. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 23(3), 205-238.

BROWSING

[ this book is not currently locatable on the library shelves. Don't worry about this reading ]
Allen, B. L. (1996). Information Tasks: Toward a User-Centered Approach to Information Systems. San Diego: Academic Press. [QA76.9.U83 A5 1996]
⇒ Chapter 7, Information tasks: interacting with information systems, p188-200 only

Marchionini, G. (1995). Information Seeking in Electronic Environments. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [QA76.9.H85 M38 1995]
⇒ Chapter 6, Browsing strategies, p100-120 only
[on SILS reserve]

DATA ENTRY

Jarrett, C. (2000). Designing usable forms: The three-layer model of the form.

Mayhew, D. J. (1992). Principles and Guidelines in Software User Interface Design. Englewood Cliffs, NJ; Prentice Hall. [QA76.9.U83 M39 1992]
⇒ Chapter 5, Dialog styles: Fill-in forms, 172-183 only
⇒ Chapter 6, Dialog styles: Question and answer, 216-222 only
[on SILS reserve]

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Some interesting examples of searching/browsing interfaces (we'll examine during class)

• Starfields and dynamic queries ⇒ Shneiderman, B. (1999, February 4). Dynamic queries, starfield displays, and the path to Spotfire
• Dynamic Queries Demos ⇒ available via the Open Video Repository
• Previews and overviews of a large collection ⇒ Library of Congress America Memory Project Collection Finder
• An overview of a collection ⇒ Nation, D. (1998). WebTOC. CHI 98 video program : making the impossible possible (Los Angeles, California, April 18-23, 1998). SILS Library video, 45-V117. Available via the Open Video Repository.
• Hyperbolic browser ⇒ Lamping, J., & Rao, R. (1996). Visualizing large trees using the hyperbolic browser. Xerox PARC. CHI 96 video program. Available via the Open Video Repository
• Baby name visualization
• Scatter/gather approach to IR ⇒ Hearst, M. (n.d.) A scatter/gather example.
• Grokker. Outline and map views of results
• Tilebars for representing search results ⇒ Hearst, M. (n.d.) TileBars examples
• Tilebars, video demo ⇒ Hearst, M. A., & Pedersen, J. O. (1996). Visualizing information retrieval results: a demonstration of the TileBar interface. In Common ground, CHI 96 video program (Vancouver, British Columbia, April 13-18, 1996). SILS Library video, 45-V103. Also available via the Open Video Repository.
• ProfileSkim ⇒ Harper, D. J., Koychev, I., Sun, Y, & Pirie, I. (2004). Within-document retrieval: A user-centered evaluation of relevance profiling. Information Retrieval, 7, 265-290. [Brief project description]
• Open Video surrogates. (For example of all available surrogates, search "water" and select "City Water Supply" from the list.)

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Optional reading

FOCUSED/ANALYTICAL SEARCHING

Bates, M. J. (2002). After the dot-bomb: getting web information retrieval right this time. First Monday, 7(7).

[ this book is not currently locatable on the library shelves. Don't worry about this reading ]
Allen, B. L. (1996). Information Tasks: Toward a User-Centered Approach to Information Systems. San Diego: Academic Press. [QA76.9.U83 A5 1996]
⇒ Chapter 6, Designing systems to meet expressed information needs, p152-187

Broder, A. (2002). A taxonomy of Web search. SIGIR Forum, 36(2), 3-10.

BROWSING

[ this book is not currently locatable on the library shelves. Don't worry about this reading ]
Allen, B. L. (1996). Information Tasks: Toward a User-Centered Approach to Information Systems. San Diego: Academic Press. [QA76.9.U83 A5 1996]
⇒ Chapter 8, Design details for information systems, p218-244

[ this book is not currently locatable on the library shelves. Don't worry about this reading ]
Rice, R. E., McCreadie, M., & Chang, S-J. L. (2001). Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication. Cambridge: MIT Press. [ZA3075 .R53 2001]
⇒ Chapter 9, Perspectives on browsing in six research literatures, p173-215
⇒ Chapter 10, A preliminary framework of browsing, p217-236

DATA ENTRY

Eklundh, K. S., Marmolin, H., & Hedin, C.-E. (1985). Experimental evaluation of dialogue types for data entry. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 22(6), 651-661.

Bargas-Avila, J.A., Oberholzer, G., Schmutz, P., de Vito, M., & Opwis, K. (2007). Usable error message presentation in the World Wide Web: Do not show errors right away. Interacting with Computers, 19(3), 330-341.

Fröhlich, D. M. (1986). On the organisation of form-filling behaviour. Information Design Journal, 5(1), 43-59.
⇒ with special attention to sections 1 and 4
[see Dr. Wildemuth if you are interested]

Fröhlich, D. M. (1987). On the organisation of form-filling behaviour in an electronic medium. Information Design Journal, 5(2), 111-128.
⇒ with special attention to sections 1 and 5
[see Dr. Wildemuth if you are interested]

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