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7 years ago Relates to M. Wilson, Search User Interface Design (2011), design recommendation: "Always return results based on the first interaction(...)"
Example websites with the proposed kind of functionality:
- http://www.imdb.com
- Sort of (should be simplified for end-users): https://data.ub.uio.no/skosmos/realfagstermer/nb/search?clang=nb&q=human
The query-response behavior of Emnesøk has a number of issues at the moment.
-Quickly typing a query, as users may often do, in many cases leads to “Ingen treff”, while if you type slowly, waiting for the suggestions to unfold, it may be more successful, since you may be able to select an option from the list. -Quickly typing a word which is in the vocabulary (e.g. “Fysikk”) and pressing return does not lead to a topic page (you have to wait until the query autocomplete entries have loaded, then pressing return results in going to the topic page)
This is quite different from the current query-response paradigm users may be used to (i.e. in online search engines). Users may quickly type a query, but in the current interface, this most likely results in no keyword matches.
Proposed solution: -Keep current way of showing query (keyword) suggestions (using "begynner med") -Change default behavior of return key, hitting return leads to a result page, showing the matches with keywords (using "inneholder", also inexact matches, if possible)
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