At CHI 2007, in a workshop on exploratory search, we had a long discussion of the definition of exploratory search, during which Sue Dumais kept challenging the room to look broadly, bringing in examples and counter-examples not only from full text search, but from more structured datasets that were also fair game.<\/p>\n
Exploratory search is just one part of HCIR<\/a>; her work on adapting systems to users’ vocabulary (not vice-versa) that led to LSI, innovative search interfaces (\u201cIf in 10 years we are still using a rectangular box and a list of results, I should be fired.<\/a>\u201d ), finding and re-finding information on your personal computer, and personalization of search results all fit squarely into the HCIR space.<\/p>\n Those who attended the HCIR’08<\/a> workshop organized by Daniel Tunkelang (Endeca), <\/a>Ryen White (MSR)<\/a>, and Bill Kules (CUA)<\/a> got a great overview of Sue’s research. This week, during her\u00a0 opening keynote at SIGIR (see notes from Jeff Dalton<\/a> and Jonathan Elsas<\/a>, who, unlike me, were actually there!) Sue described the course of her career as an IR researcher, first at Bellcore<\/a> and at Microsoft Research<\/a>. In her career, she has consistently focused on the user both for inspiration for design, and for evaluating the systems.<\/p>\n “If you have an operational system and you don’t use what your users are doing to improve, you should have your head examined” (from\u00a0 Jeff Dalton<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I expect we’ll be seeing more interesting and innovative results from her group, both at SIGIR<\/a> and at the HCIR<\/a> workshop series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At CHI 2007, in a workshop on exploratory search, we had a long discussion of the definition of exploratory search, during which Sue Dumais kept challenging the room to look broadly, bringing in examples and counter-examples not only from full text search, but from more structured datasets that were also fair game. Exploratory search is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,15],"tags":[94],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}