User interaction and visualization
This week reading introduced the ideas and practices surrounding user interface design in general, and search interface design in particular. It has explained some of the difficulties with search interface design and provided a set of design guidelines tailored specifically to search user interfaces.
Next Design principals were described:
- Offer informative feedback.
- Support user control.
- Reduce short-term memory load.
- Provide shortcuts for skilled users.
- Reduce errors; offer simple error handling.
- Strive for consistency.
- Permit easy reversal of actions.
- Design for closure.
Also applications in the field of Text Mining, which usually involve visualizing connections among entities within and across documents, were discussed. Methods for visualization occurrences of words or phrases within documents, in what have classically been called concordances, various attempts to visualize relationships between words in their usage in language and in lexical ontologies, were also shown.
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