Enhancing Search Experience with Interactive User Interfaces and Thumbnail Previews
This presentation by Zaw Lin explores the evolution and importance of search interfaces, focusing on the use of thumbnail previews to improve user relevance decisions. It covers why multi-touch interfaces are necessary and showcases various related visual search engines. The development, evaluation, and effectiveness of user interfaces are discussed, including demos and insights into why snippets are often short. By examining current trends and user preferences, this presentation aims to inform the design of more effective search experiences that feel integrated into everyday web usage.
Enhancing Search Experience with Interactive User Interfaces and Thumbnail Previews
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Interactive user interface for search Presenter:Zaw Lin
Outline • Why search and why the thumbnail previews? • Why multi-touch? • Related interfaces. • Development and presentation of interface • User evaluation • Demo
Why Search? • Not a specialized tool any more. • Now firmly entrenched as part of typical webexperience.
Why are there thumbnails? • Dziadosz, S., and Chandrasekar, R. • Do thumbnail previews help users make better relevance decisions about web search results? • In SIGIR ’02: Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Related interfaces • Lots and lots of them, • Ujiko,searchCube,Kartoo,ViewZi,MiddleSpot,WebBrain,oSkope,Nexplorer,Zippa
Visual search engines • All the above • The definition of Wikipedia might differ
Two View for Secondary workspace • Zoomable auto-arranging and animating tile-based view • Cover-flow view
Thumbnails are on the left • Based on Google’s eye tracking studies