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The Rookie Text Analysis System
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Toggle summary box on intro mode? (Make exploitation harder than exploration?) #211

Closed AbeHandler closed 8 years ago

AbeHandler commented 8 years ago

I think Rookie would be more interpretable to novice users if the summary box was turned off to start. So it is just ngram viewer + facets. Then you can click: "see summary"? This would get people less oriented towards google and more oriented towards exploratory search.

(That setting could hypothetically be turned off for expert users, but I wonder if those users would still prefer a traditional IR system for focused search).

In CS terms: users seem to move very, very quickly from exploration to exploitation. They see the facets/engines as alternate pathways to google results. They see Rookie as a crappier Google.

brendano commented 8 years ago

In CS terms: users seem to move very, very quickly from exploration to exploitation. They see the facets/engines as alternate pathways to google results. They see Rookie as a crappier Google.

I'm not sure I see why this justifies the proposed approach. If people don't want the facets, are you saying they could be forced to like the facets or give the facets more of a chance, either by turning off the doc results or forcing a slower ramp-up learning curve?

Or is the problem that the facets are not useful for them?

AbeHandler commented 8 years ago

I think the facets are good + working and should stay!

The current workflow seems to be: run a query, pick a facet, click some links. After clicking the links + commenting on the articles, users are unsure what to do next. they seem to forget about the exploration aspect. They don't do what I do w/ google ngram viewer: explore what kinds of stuff the system comes up with. they immediately jump to finding articles.

maybe turning off the text to start or at least making people click a summary tab will encourage exploration.

AbeHandler commented 8 years ago

More facets would definitely help w/ this. #186

also: temporally specific facets would help. although that is hard to do at user speed. maybe: once user settles in a T region w/ no F selected, POST for T-specific facets + display.

So

if F selected -> see summary box /results list if no F and no T -> see facets. can ask for more facets too. if no F and T -> see more facets

AbeHandler commented 8 years ago

Decided at meeting 4/18:

Click F keeps SparklineTile grid below the timeseries graph. clicked sparkline is highlighted. rest are greyed out. user can click different sparklines to explore by adding them to the big graph.

there is a summarize button for drill down. or if you select a time range you get a summary box

AbeHandler commented 8 years ago

I think this design solves the issue of ppl drilling down too quickly to a particular facet

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