Design and evaluation of a prototype user interface supporting sharing of search knowledge in information retrieval
This paper describes a prototype user interface system, CIRR tool, which allows searchers to share their relevance judgments, search queries, and search results by providing a system Task Console with a Group Report feature. The system was developed based on the assumption that knowledge sharing in information retrieval (IR) is helpful and important to improve search performance. A usability evaluation of this system was conducted. The test results show that in general the system is easy to learn and use. However, some usability problems are also observed. The paper discusses these issues and proposes future research directions.
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