Information retrieval or search plays an important role in a wide range of information management and electronic commerce tasks. In spite of the importance of information retrieval, search systems are often poorly designed from a human computer interaction perspective. The goal of this SIG is to articulate some of the opportunities and challenges in designing and evaluating highly interactive information retrieval systems. Author Keywords Information retrieval, Information visualization, User interface, Interactive systems design and evaluation ACM Classification Keywords Database access/Information retrieval, World Wide Web and hypermedia, User studies
Nicholas J. Belkin, Susan T. Dumais, Jean Scholtz,