A Human-Centered Design and Evaluation Framework for Information Search

Information search in a distributed environment is an interactive process between the user and the artifact. How the information is distributed across the user and the artifact determines the efficacy of information search. Using a human-centered method, UFuRT, we developed an information search model and a taxonomy of search tasks. Further, we developed prototypes to investigate the relationship between search tasks and interface types. Preliminary results of analysis reveal the requirement of distributed information for search tasks and help understand the complexity of the tasks in different types of interfaces.

[1]  Irina Gaslikova,et al.  "Information Seeking in Context" and the development of information systems , 1999, Inf. Res..

[2]  Vimla L. Patel,et al.  Designing Human-Centered Distributed Information Systems , 2002, IEEE Intell. Syst..

[3]  Tefko Saracevic,et al.  Modeling Interaction in Information Retrieval (IR): A Review and Proposal. , 1996 .

[4]  Vimla L. Patel,et al.  The Cognitive Complexity of a Provider Order Entry Interface , 2003, AMIA.

[5]  Donald A. Norman,et al.  Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine , 1993 .

[6]  Bob Fields,et al.  ANALYSING HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION AS DISTRIBUTED COGNITION: THE RESOURCES MODEL , 1999 .

[7]  Barbara Niedzwiedzka,et al.  A proposed general model of information behaviour , 2003, Inf. Res..

[8]  B. Dervin.  AN OVERVIEW OF SENSE-MAKING RESEARCH: CONCEPTS, METHODS AND RESULTS TO DATE , 1983 .

[9]  Robert J. K. Jacob,et al.  User interface , 2002 .

[10]  Anita Komlodi.  Task management support in information seeking: a case for search histories , 2004, Comput. Hum. Behav..

[11]  E. Hutchins.  Cognition in the wild , 1995 .

[12]  F. W. Lancaster,et al.  Information Retrieval Today , 1993 .

[13]  Anthony Ralston,et al.  Encyclopedia of Computer Science , 1971 .

[14]  James J. Cimino,et al.  Providing multiple views to meet physician information needs , 2000, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

[15]  Carol Collier Kuhlthau.  Inside the Search Process: Information Seeking from the User's Perspective. , 1991 .

[16]  Raya Fidel,et al.  Collaborative Information Retrieval. , 1999 .

[17]  Gary Marchionini,et al.  Interfaces for end‐user information seeking , 1992 .

[18]  Ben Shneiderman,et al.  Designing The User Interface , 2013 .

[19]  B. Shneiderman.  Designing the User Interface (3rd Ed.) , 1998 .

[20]  James D. Hollan,et al.  Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research , 2000, TCHI.

[21]  DervinBrenda.  On studying information seeking methodologically , 1999 .

[22]  David Ellis,et al.  A behavioural model for information retrieval system design , 1989, J. Inf. Sci..

[23]  Brenda Dervin,et al.  On studying information seeking methodologically: the implications of connecting metatheory to method , 1999, Inf. Process. Manag..

[24]  David Ellis,et al.  A Comparison of the Information seeking Patterns of researchers in the Physical and Social Sciences , 1993, J. Documentation.

[25]  Kalervo Järvelin,et al.  Task complexity affects information seeking and use , 1995 .