Interfacing Session
Tuesday 7 June 2011 afternoon
This session addresses questions like: Are current search problems in the patent domain caused by the fact that the search interfaces have been designed for other domain searches? How could the perfect interface for patent search look like? The session will show new developments in the field including the demo of an interactive interface with higher level search functionalities that allows for direct manipulation of queries, result sets and documents.
Schedule:
Keynote
Designing the Search Experience
Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs
The landscape of the search industry is undergoing fundamental change. In particular, there is a growing realisation that the true value of search is best realised by embedding it a wider discovery context, so that in addition to facilitating basic lookup tasks such as known-item search and fact retrieval, support is also provided for more complex exploratory tasks such as comparison, aggregation, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and so on. Clearly, for these sorts of activity a much richer kind of interaction or dialogue between system and end user is required. This talk examines what forms this interactivity might take and discusses a number of principles and approaches for designing effective search and discovery experiences.
Tony Russell-Rose currently is director of UXLabs, a consultancy specialising in user experience research, design and analytics. Before founding UXLabs, Tony was Manager of User Experience at Endeca, a software company specialising in innovative solutions for information search and business intelligence. Prior to this he was technical lead at Reuters, specialising in advanced user interfaces for information access and search. And before Reuters he was R&D group manager at Canon Research Centre Europe, where he led a team developing next generation information access products and services. Earlier professional experience includes a Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship at HP Labs and a Short-term Research Fellowship at BT Labs.
His academic qualifications include a PhD in human-computer interaction, an MSc in cognitive psychology and a first degree in engineering, majoring in human factors. Tony also holds the position of Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Interactive Systems Research, City University, London.
He currently acts as vice-chair of the BCS Information Retrieval group and chair of the IEHF Human-Computer Interaction group.
Interfacing Demonstrations
Demo: Using ezDL as a Search Interface for Patent Searching
Matthias Jordan, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Matthias Jordan
Matthias received his diploma in computer science from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 2005. He worked as code monkey for Framfab in Hamburg, where he helped develop and maintain web sites for Postbank and the International Olympic Committee. In 2008 he joined Norbert Fuhr's research group where he teaches information retrieval and databases, develops ezDL and pursues a Ph.D. in interactive IR.