Usability studies of faceted browsing: A literature review
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The article proposes methodological considerations for practicing librarians and provides examples of goals, tasks, and measurements for user studies of faceted browsing in library catalogs.Abstract:
Faceted browsing is a common feature of new library catalog interfaces. But to what extent does it improve user performance in searching within today’s library catalog systems? This article reviews the literature for user studies involving faceted browsing and user studies of “next-generation” library catalogs that incorporate faceted browsing. Both the results and the methods of these studies are analyzed by asking, What do we currently know about faceted browsing? How can we design better studies of faceted browsing in library catalogs? The article proposes methodological considerations for practicing librarians and provides examples of goals, tasks, and measurements for user studies of faceted browsing in library catalogs.read more
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Usability Test Results for a Discovery Tool in an Academic Library
TL;DR: A usability test of EBSCO Discovery Service raised several questions for libraries above and beyond any specific discovery tool interface, including the scope and purpose of a discovery tool versus other library systems, working with the large result sets made possible by discovery tools, and navigation between the tool and other library services and resources.
Intelligent Information Systems for Web Product Search
TL;DR: This dissertation addresses key aspects of implementing such a system, including hierarchical product classification, entity resolution, ontology population and schema mapping, and lastly, the optimization of faceted user interfaces.
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Usability Testing of VuFind at an Academic Library
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TL;DR: Both the usability testing and survey demonstrated that users preferred VuFind's interface over the classic catalogue, and particularly liked the facets and the richness of the search results.
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Influence of training and stage of search on gaze behavior in a library catalog faceted search interface
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TL;DR: The results confirm previous findings that facets account for approximately 10-30% of interface use and suggest that searcher use of interface elements varied by the stage of their search during the session, with higher use of facets during decision-making stages.
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Is visual content in textual search interfaces beneficial to dyslexic users
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Faceted metadata for image search and browsing
TL;DR: An alternative based on enabling users to navigate along conceptual dimensions that describe the images is presented, which makes use of hierarchical faceted metadata and dynamically generated query previews.
Ontologies Come of Age
TL;DR: This paper discusses ontologies and requirements in their current instantiations on the web today, and describes some desirable properties of ontologies.
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Clustering versus faceted categories for information exploration
TL;DR: Both approaches to clustering and faceted categorization are described and their advantages and disadvantages are summarized based on the results of usability studies.
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The need for a faceted classification as the basis of all methods of information retrieval
TL;DR: The study finds that faceted systems are now very common, with a major increase in their use over the last 15 years.
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Toward a Twenty-First Century Library Catalog
TL;DR: The new functionality that has been enabled, the implementation process and system architecture, assessment of the new catalog’s performance, and future directions are discussed.
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