I con­tributed to the user inter­face design chap­ter in the recent Springer book “Dynamic Tax­onomies and Faceted Search – The­ory, Prac­tice, and Expe­ri­ence” (online ver­sion) edited by Gio­vanni Maria Sacco and Yan­nis Tzitzikas. Based on a def­i­n­i­tion of core prin­ci­ples and chal­lenges, the chap­ter presents a tax­on­omy of nav­i­ga­tion modes observed in exist­ing appli­ca­tions. On that basis, design pat­terns for enabling these nav­i­ga­tion modes in user inter­faces as well as exten­sions and related approaches are dis­cussed. The chap­ter closes with a sec­tion on per­son­al­iz­ing faceted search.

The book itself cov­ers a wide range of top­ics and cur­rent research ques­tions related to Dynamic Tax­onomies and Faceted Search from an aca­d­e­mic point of view.

You can find a pre-print ver­sion of the User Inter­face Design chap­ter here. Thanks also to my co–authors Sébas­t­ian Ferré, Save­rio Perug­ini, Jonathan Koren and Yi Zhang!

I would like to make you aware of the work­shop of inter­est for any­body into faceted search and related topics:

FIND ’08: 2nd inter­na­tional work­shop on Dynamic Tax­onomies and Faceted Search

Torino, Italy, Sep­tem­ber 1–5, 2008 (in con­junc­tion with DEXA 2008)

Impor­tant Dates:

Sub­mis­sion of papers: 15 March 2008 Noti­fi­ca­tion of accep­tance: 20 April 2008 Camera-ready copies: 15 May 2008

http://www.sig-find.org/find08/index.html

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