Q1
•Your company has been hired to design a product that will provide searches of textual documents and database querying. Your design team has not developed a product like this before. Examine the challenges associated with searching in textual documents and database querying. Describe how the five-stage search framework shared in Chapter 13 could be used to overcome those challenges.
•Assess current multimedia document search techniques and suggest three techniques to improve multimedia search experiences. Explain why you chose to recommend each of the techniques you suggested
e-Activity.
•Read the article titled "History of Search Engines: From 1945 to Google Today" about the history of Internet search engines, located at
http://www.searchenginehistory.com/.
Be prepared to discuss
Q2
•Describe the most effective advanced filtering and search interface. Argue why the interface you chose is more effective than others, and describe who benefits most from the interface you are describing.
•From the e-Activity, Google has been the dominant market leader for search engines for the past several years, despite a fairly basic interface and competition from competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo. Discuss reasons why Google has been able to maintain such a high market share. Also, suggest some ideas for a search engine that would be able to take market share away from Google
Q1
•Justify characterizing data types according to task taxonomy. Support your response.
•Assess the value to an interface designer, of being familiar with the seven basic tasks and create an argument for which three of the seven basic tasks are the most important to incorporate in a design
e-Activity.
•Use the Internet to locate an article on information visualization tools. Be prepared to discuss.
Q2
•Despite increases in computing power and network bandwidth, many user interfaces are still largely text oriented, with a few icons and illustrations. Discuss at least three reasons why text-oriented interfaces are still the most common.
•From the e-Activity, identify the tool you would be most likely to use in a design project and explain why you selected it.