New Book - Search User Interfaces

This book by Marti Hearst presents the state of the art of search interface design, based on both academic research and deployment in commercial systems.

Topics include:

• How to Design Search User Interfaces
• How to Evaluate Search User Interfaces
• Models of the Information Seeking Process
• Search Interfaces Fundamentals, including:
• Query Specification
• Presentation of Search Results
• Query Reformulation
• Advanced Topics, including:
• Integrating Navigation with Search
• Personalization in Search
• Information Visualization and Search
• Mobile Search
• Social Search
• Multimedia Search

This book will be available on paper in September, but is available to be read online, free of charge. Read it!