Designing a search user interface for a digital library

@article{rose2006, abstract = {User interfaces of Web search engines reflect attributes of the underlying tools used to create them, rather than what we know about how people look for information. In this article, the author examines several characteristics of user search behavior: the variety of information-seeking goals, the cultural and situational context of search, and the iterative nature of the search task. An analysis of these characteristics suggests ways that interfaces can be redesigned to make searching more effective for users.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Davis, Lynne }, citeulike-article-id = {1351600}, doi = {10.1002/asi.v57:6}, issn = {1532-2882}, journal = {J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol.}, keywords = {interaction, interface, search}, month = {April}, number = {6}, pages = {788--791}, posted-at = {2008-05-06 08:47:58}, priority = {3}, publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.}, title = {Designing a search user interface for a digital library}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1124172}, volume = {57}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - rose2006 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1351600 TI - Designing a search user interface for a digital library JF - J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol. VL - 57 IS - 6 SP - 788 EP - 791 AD - New York, NY, USA PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. SN - 1532-2882 N2 - User interfaces of Web search engines reflect attributes of the underlying tools used to create them, rather than what we know about how people look for information. In this article, the author examines several characteristics of user search behavior: the variety of information-seeking goals, the cultural and situational context of search, and the iterative nature of the search task. An analysis of these characteristics suggests ways that interfaces can be redesigned to make searching more effective for users. KW - interaction KW - interface KW - search AU - Davis, Lynne PY - 2006/04// UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1124172 ER -