Do users benefit from controlled vocabularies in search interfaces?

Ying-Hsang Liu; Paul Thomas; Jan-Felix Schmakeit; Tom Gedeon

Do users benefit from controlled vocabularies in search interfaces?

Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Thomas, Jan-Felix Schmakeit, Tom Gedeon

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Abstract

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 ongoing 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Editors	James Kalbach James Kalbach
Place of Publication	Netherlands
Publisher	EuroHCIR
Pages	71-74
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	EuroHCIR 2012: The 2nd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval - Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Netherlands Duration: 25 Aug 2012 → 25 Aug 2012 http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=22764&copyownerid=37154

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ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

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Workshop	EuroHCIR 2012
Country/Territory	Netherlands
Period	25/08/12 → 25/08/12
Internet address	http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=22764&copyownerid=37154

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Do users benefit from controlled vocabularies in search interfaces? / Liu, Ying-Hsang; Thomas, Paul; Schmakeit, Jan-Felix et al.
European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval. ed. / James Kalbach James Kalbach. Netherlands: EuroHCIR, 2012. p. 71-74.

Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paper › Conference paper › peer-review