TheHotMap.com: Enabling Flexible Interaction in Next-Generation Web Search Interfaces

Author

Hoeber, Orland ; Brooks, Michael ; Schroeder, Daniel ; Yang, Xue Dong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, St. John´´s, NL

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

730

Lastpage

734

Abstract

TheHotMap.com is an example of a next-generation Web search interface, wherein users are able to take an active role in the Web search process. Information that can assist searchers in their Web search tasks is presented in a visual manner. The system supports user interaction both during the query refinement process, as well as the search results exploration process. This paper describes the features of TheHotMap.com; usage log analysis illustrates the benefits of supporting flexible interaction within a single unified Web search interface.

Keywords

Internet; human computer interaction; query processing; user interfaces; TheHotMap.com; log analysis; next-generation Web search interface; query refinement process; user interaction; visual manner; Computer science; Frequency; Histograms; Information retrieval; Intelligent agent; Prototypes; Search engines; User interfaces; Web search; Web search; interface; usage log analysis; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008. WI-IAT '08. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3496-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WIIAT.2008.150

Filename

4740537