Appraising the Interface Features of Web Search Engines Based on User-defined Relevance Criteria (Appraising the Interface Features of Web Search Engines Based on User-defined Relevance Criteria )

Yang-woo Kim (김양우)

Appraising the Interface Features of Web Search Engines Based on User-defined Relevance Criteria

Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science
2011, 22(1), pp.247-262
Publisher : Journal Of The Korean Biblia Society For Library And Information Science
Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Yang-woo Kim ¹

¹한성대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Although research has shown a significant amount of work identifying various dimensions of relevance along with exhaustive lists of relevance criteria, there seem to have been less effort to apply the findings to improve actual systems design. Based on this assumption, this paper investigates to what extent those relevance criteria have been incorporated into the interface features of major commercial Web search engines, suggesting what can/should be done more. Before stepping into the actual system features, this paper compares recent relevance research in Information Science with other human factor studies both in Information Science and its neighboring discipline (HCI), as an attempt to identify studies that are conceptually similar to the relevance research, but not named as such way. Similarities and differences between these studies are presented. Recommendations suggested to support applicable interface features include: 1) further personalization of interface designs; 2) author-supplied meta tags for the Web contents; and 3) extensions of beyond-topical representations based on link structure.

KEYWORDS

User Study, Relevance Criteria, Interface, Human Computer Interaction, Web Search Engines

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