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Volume 45 ,  Issue 9  (September 2002) table of contents
SPECIAL ISSUE: The consumer side of search table of contents
Pages: 42 - 49  
Year of Publication: 2002
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
Marti Hearst  University of California, Berkeley
Ame Elliott  Ricoh Innovations, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
Jennifer English  University of California, Berkeley
Rashmi Sinha  University of California, Berkeley
Kirsten Swearingen  University of California, Berkeley
Ka-Ping Yee  University of California, Berkeley
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Designing a search system and interface may best be served (and executed) by scrutinizing usability studies.


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Bates, M.J. The berry-picking search: User interface design. User Interface Design. H. Thimbleby, Ed. Addison Wesley, Reading, PA, 1990.
 
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English, J., Hearst, M.A., Sinha, R., Swearingen, K., and Yee, P. Flexible search and browsing using faceted metadata, 2002. In preparation.
 
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Hearst, M.A. User interfaces and visualization. Modern Information Retrieval. Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Eds. ACM Press, New York, 1999, 257--323.
 
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Johnson, K., Manning, H., Hagen, P.R., and Dorsey, M. Specialize Your Site's Search. Forrester Research, (Dec. 2001), Cambridge, MA; www.forrester.com/ER/Research/Report/Summary/0,1338,13322,00. html,
 
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Lowe, H.J., and Barnett, G.O. Understanding and using the medical subject headings (MeSH) vocabulary to perform literature searches. JAMA 271, 4 (1994), 1103--1108.
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Shneiderman, B., Byrd, D., and Croft, W.B. Clarifying search: A user-interface framework for text searches. DLIB Mag. (Jan. 1997).
 
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Ame Elliott: colleagues
Jennifer English: colleagues
Rashmi Sinha: colleagues
Kirsten Swearingen: colleagues
Ka-Ping Yee: colleagues