This book presents the state of the art of search interface design, based on both academic research and deployment in commercial systems.
"This will be seen as a transformational book -- one that synthesized a new, coherent discipline of human information interaction out of literature and experience scattered across many fields." - Dr. Stuart Card"[T]his is the first book to explain all of the research in a way that a practitioner like me can apply it." - Keith Instone
"Hearst's brilliant organization, lucid writing, and admirably comprehensive review ... are gifts to scholars, implementers, and students who want to contribute to ... user interfaces for information search and retrieval." - Dr. Ben Shneiderman
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