TY - JOUR
T1 - Do users benefit from controlled vocabularies in search interfaces?
AU - Liu, Ying Hsang
AU - Thomas, Paul
AU - Schmakeit, Jan Felix
AU - Gedeon, Tom
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Search providers in domains from medicine to news have long labelled documents with controlled vocabularies, to help users explore their collections. These vocabularies are expensive to build and use, however, and seem to be useful mostly for domain experts. This paper describes an on-going gaze-tracking study which asks whether users notice controlled vocabularies when they are exposed in a search interface; whether they make use of them; and whether this improves search. We also hope to learn what effect several standard search interfaces have on the use of controlled vocabularies.
AB - Search providers in domains from medicine to news have long labelled documents with controlled vocabularies, to help users explore their collections. These vocabularies are expensive to build and use, however, and seem to be useful mostly for domain experts. This paper describes an on-going gaze-tracking study which asks whether users notice controlled vocabularies when they are exposed in a search interface; whether they make use of them; and whether this improves search. We also hope to learn what effect several standard search interfaces have on the use of controlled vocabularies.
KW - Gaze be- haviour
KW - Individual differences
KW - Mesh terms
KW - Search results presentation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84891906809&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84891906809
SN - 1613-0073
VL - 909
SP - 71
EP - 74
JO - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
JF - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
T2 - 2nd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, EuroHCIR 2012
Y2 - 25 August 2012 through 25 August 2012
ER -