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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Search interfaces"”.
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A comparison of mobile search interfaces for isiXhosa speakers
Search interfaces have for a long time been targeted at the resource-rich languages, such as English. There has been little effort to support African (Bantu) languages in search interfaces when compared to languages such as English, particularly the isiXhosa language. However, due to the increase …
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Klink Search: Enabling Exploratory Browsing Activities in Digital Libraries
Complex search tasks within academic digital libraries go beyond simple lookup. They are open-ended, multi-faceted, with ill-defined information needs, requiring cognitive processing of the encountered information and learning. Academic digital library searchers often use exploratory search …
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An analytical inspection framework for evaluating the search tactics and user profiles supported by information seeking interfaces
Searching is something we do everyday both in digital and physical environments. Whether we are searching for books in a library or information on the web, search is becoming increasingly important. For many years, however, the standard for search in software has been to provide a keyword search …
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Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation
… in multimodal media. From the history of haptic interfaces to the data practices of social media communities across the US and China, this thesis uses historical and ethnographic methods to understand how users of quantitative information encode norms about gender, ability, and race in data …
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A Generous Interface for the Discoverability of Text Collections
Existing search interfaces for digital collections are excellent for finding specific items, but are unfriendly to inexperienced users, fail to facilitate exploration, and do not highlight the internal relationships and structures within a collection. Generous interfaces have been theorized as an …
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Linking Textual Resources to Support Information Discovery
… corporate reports, encyclopedia entries and research papers. At a semantic level, these documents contain knowledge, which was created by explicitly connecting information and expressing it in the form of a natural language. However, a significant amount of knowledge is not explicitly stated in …
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Search Timelines: Contextualized search history in support of exploratory search
The timespan over which exploratory searching can occur, as well as the scope and volume of the search activities undertaken, can make it difficult for searchers to remember key details about their complex search tasks. These difficulties are present both during a single search session and when …
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Buckets: Smart Objects for Digital Libraries
… by the merits of various archives, repositories, search engines, search interfaces and database systems. While these technologies are necessary for information management, information content and information retrieval systems should progress on independent paths and each should make limited …
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A DOMAIN-CENTRIC APPROACH TO DESIGNING USER INTERFACES OF VIDEO RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
… efforts in video information retrieval (IR) research are needed because current experiments are showing few significant results. It is our belief that unsatisfactory results in video IR can be partially attributed to the overemphasis on technologically-driven approaches to interface development …
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A formal framework for optimizing and evaluating interactive retrieval system
… amount of information available to us, and the research area of information retrieval has served to help us access the tiny subset of information relevant to each of us more efficiently and more effectively. This thesis studies how to formally optimize as well as evaluate an interactive …
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Exploiting available domain knowledge to improve the retrieval and recommendation of Digital Cultural Heritage materials
… of which precise keyword terms to use to search and discover new information. As an attempt to mitigate the issues explained above, recommender systems and visual search interfaces have been used by millions of users to discover new and relevant to the users’ interests CH materials. A CH …