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Kathryn La Barre | 5 Apr 2006 18:56
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New article by Hearst/ usability of faceted categories for search

Thought I'd draw your attention to a new article by Marti Hearst:

Clustering versus Faceted Categories for Information.
Communications of the ACM, 49 (4), April 2006. p. 59-61.

Excerpt: There are many open research questions about how to generate
useful groupings and
how to design interfaces to support exploration using grouping.
Currently two methods are
quite popular: clustering and faceted categorization. Here, I describe
both approaches and
summarize their advantages and disadvantages based on the results of
usability studies.

Linked to the Flamenco website:
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/papers/cacm06.pdf

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Kathryn La Barre | 11 Apr 2006 00:55
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Hearst's CHI 2006 course is now online

I missed this the first time, but I wanted to also draw your attention
to a course at the upcoming CHI2006 conference in Montreal (April
22-26) at which Hearst, and Smalley + Chandler(both from eBay) will be
presenting a course titled
"Faceted metadata for information architecture and search"
you've got a chance to view the PDF here even if you can't attend:
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/talks/chi_course06.pdf

Many thanks to Marti for her generosity!

From the description:

The purpose of this course is to introduce and explain a systematic approach to
designing information architecture for web sites consisting of large
collections of items.
The main goals of the approach are to produce websites with multiple
different views to
reflect differences in user's preferred search and browsing methods,
to incorporate
search uniformly throughout the design of the site, and to do this in
a manner that makes
use of standard technology and allows non-experts to be able to add to
the content of
the site without disturbing the other properties.

The main objective of the course is to instruct attendees about how to integrate
navigation and search for large collections in a seamless, flexible
manner that helps
users find things quickly and browse items comfortably. The course
will present a
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marti_hearst | 26 Apr 2006 08:00
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Flamenco code released at long last!!

Hello you facet fans!

At long last we have made the Flamenco code available as open source
code.  We're storing it at sourceforge.  For more information, see
http://flamenco.berkeley.edu

Cheers,
Marti Hearst
hearst <at> sims.berkeley.edu

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