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A Visual Approach to Query Formulation for Systematic Search

Russell-Rose, Tony; Chamberlain, Jon; Shokraneh, Farhad

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Authors

Tony Russell-Rose

Jon Chamberlain

Farhad Shokraneh



Abstract

Knowledge workers (such as healthcare information professionals, patent agents and legal researchers) need to create and execute search strategies that are accurate, repeatable and transparent. The traditional solution offered by most database vendors is to use proprietary line-by-line ‘query builders’. However, these offer limited support for error checking or query optimisation, and their output can often be compromised by errors and inefficiencies. Using the healthcare domain for context, we demonstrate a new approach to search strategy formulation in which concepts are expressed as objects on a two-dimensional canvas, and relationships are articulated using direct manipulation. This approach eliminates many sources of syntactic error, makes the query semantics more transparent, and offers new ways to optimise, save and share search strategies and best practices.

Citation

Russell-Rose, T., Chamberlain, J., & Shokraneh, F. (2019). A Visual Approach to Query Formulation for Systematic Search. In CHIIR '19: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (379-383). https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298919

Conference Name CHIIR '19: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
Conference Location Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Start Date Mar 10, 2019
End Date Mar 14, 2019
Acceptance Date Nov 30, 2018
Online Publication Date Mar 8, 2019
Publication Date Mar 8, 2019
Deposit Date Dec 3, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages 379-383
Book Title CHIIR '19: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
ISBN 978-1-4503-6025-8
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298919
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1361168
Publisher URL https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3298919

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