Abstract
In this paper we look at what may be learned from a
comparative study examining non-technical users with a
background in social science browsing and querying
metadata. Four query tasks were carried out with a natural
language interface and with an interface that uses a web
paradigm with hyperlinks. While it can be difficult to
attribute differences in performance to specific design
features, a qualitative analysis of the user behavior provides
some insight into the task and problematic aspects of
existing interfaces. In general it was found that casual
subjects have difficulties recognizing typical ontology
based concepts like objects, attributes and values.
comparative study examining non-technical users with a
background in social science browsing and querying
metadata. Four query tasks were carried out with a natural
language interface and with an interface that uses a web
paradigm with hyperlinks. While it can be difficult to
attribute differences in performance to specific design
features, a qualitative analysis of the user behavior provides
some insight into the task and problematic aspects of
existing interfaces. In general it was found that casual
subjects have difficulties recognizing typical ontology
based concepts like objects, attributes and values.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proc. of the Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW 2010) at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2010) |
| Place of Publication | Hong Kong, China |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| Event | Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web - Hong Kong, China Duration: 7-Feb-2010 → 7-Feb-2010 |
Workshop
| Workshop | Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web |
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| Country/Territory | China |
| City | Hong Kong |
| Period | 07/02/2010 → 07/02/2010 |