INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE FOR

SEARCHPresenter: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.

Mental model of search

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

Why snippets are so short?

Why snippets are so short?

The ideal snippet

Related interfaces

Lots and lots of them, Ujiko,searchCube,Kartoo,ViewZi,MiddleSp

ot,WebBrain,oSkope,Nexplorer,Zippa

Visual search engines

All the above The definition of Wikipedia might differ

Samples(Ujiko)

Sample(Search Cube)

Sample(Kartoo)

Sample(ScienceRoll)

Snippets

UI overall

Two View for Secondary workspace

Zoomable auto-arranging and animating tile-based view

Cover-flow view

UI design choices and features

Visual Cues

Bigger buttons

Thumbnails are on the left

Based on Google’s eye tracking studies

Flip scroll

Saving results

Secondary Window Zoom Modes

Zoom rectangular View(Original)

Coverflow Zoom modes(1)

Demo

Questions?