Think outside the search box: A comparative study of visual and form-based query builders
Think outside the search box: A comparative study of visual and form-based query builders
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跳出搜索框思考：视觉和基于表单的查询构建器的比较研究
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10.48550/arxiv.2205.04212
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2022
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Tony Russell
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Tanja Svarre;Tony Russell
知识工作者，如医疗保健信息专业人员，法律的研究人员和图书馆员需要创建和执行全面，透明和可复制的搜索策略。传统的解决方案是使用文献数据库供应商提供的专有查询构建工具。在大多数情况下，这些查询构建器是使用基于表单的范例设计的，该范例要求用户逐行输入关键字和本体术语，然后使用布尔运算符将它们联合收割机组合起来。然而，近年来，人机交互技术发生了重大变化，用户现在可以使用各种新颖的数据可视化技术与在线信息系统进行交互。在这篇文章中，我们评估了一种新的方法来查询建设中，用户表达的概念作为对象的视觉画布上，并比较这与传统的基于表单的查询生成器在实验室为基础的用户研究。结果表明，潜在的视觉界面，以减轻一些与基于表单的界面，并鼓励更多的探索性搜索行为的缺点。它们还展示了在查询公式化中具有临时“暂存”空间的价值。此外，研究结果强调了专业搜索中对透明度和可重复性的持续需求，并提出了关于如何最好地支持这些属性的进一步问题。
Knowledge workers such as healthcare information professionals, legal researchers and librarians need to create and execute search strategies that are comprehensive, transparent and reproducible. The traditional solution is to use proprietary query-building tools provided by literature database vendors. In the majority of cases, these query builders are designed using a form-based paradigm that requires the user to enter keywords and ontology terms on a line-by-line basis and then combine them using Boolean operators. However, recent years have witnessed significant changes in human–computer interaction technologies, and users can now engage with online information systems using a variety of novel data visualisation techniques. In this article, we evaluate a new approach to query building in which users express concepts as objects on a visual canvas and compare this with a traditional form-based query builder in a laboratory-based user study. The results demonstrate the potential of visual interfaces to mitigate some of the shortcomings associated with form-based interfaces and encourage more exploratory search behaviour. They also demonstrate the value of having a temporary ‘scratch’ space in query formulation. In addition, the findings highlight an ongoing need for transparency and reproducibility in professional search and raise further questions about how these properties may best be supported.
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