HCI Bibliography : Example Searches

1. gui guidelines A user was looking for guidelines on Graphical User Interfaces.
2. (keyboard,keyboarding, typing);(training,skill) A user was looking for references on skilled use of keyboards

Suggested Search: {gui,{graphical interface},WIMP};{guideline*,standard*}

• gui probably does not need to be next to guidelines Suggestion: gui;guidelines
• if we are not matching whole words, gui is going to match lots of things it should not, such as guidelines Suggestion: turn on whole word matching
• using approximate match on a short word like gui would match too many variations
• matching gui with guidelines might be improved by matching variations of guidelines Suggestion: {guidelines,guideline,standard,standards}
• matching variations of gui such as graphical;interface and WIMP would help Suggestion: {gui,{graphical;interface},WIMP}
• case sensitive match on GUI would be fine, but it would require many more variations of guidelines
• showing the Top Terms in the results might suggest other terms to use

Suggested Search: {keyboard,typing};{performance;skill}

• (...);(...) sadly, this good attempt gets no matches because the glimpse search engine uses braces (i.e., curly brackets) for grouping, not parentheses. In the query above, the parentheses must match exactly (which they do not). Suggestion: {...};{...}
• keyboard,keyboarding, typing requires that there be a space before "typing". Suggestion: keyboard,keyboarding,typing
• keyboard,keyboarding,typing is redundant because keyboard is part of keyboarding (when not matching whole word). Suggestion: keyboard,typing
• turning on Whole Word matching with Approximate Match would avoid matches of "prototyping" and "constraint" but variations of "train" match to many terms
• if the search is really about skilled use keyboards, perhaps "typing" is unnecessary. Similarly, "training" might be augmented by "learning", or replaced by "performance", depending on the required information. Restricting to "skill;performance" (both terms), still gets a fair number of records.
• showing the Top Terms in the results might suggest other terms to use (e.g., QWERTY, input devices, data entry, typists)