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Pollitt, A.S.; Ellis, G.P.; Smith, M.P.: HIBROWSE for bibliographic databases (1994) 0.02

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Abstract: The HIBROWSE design offers improved searching functionality for users of bibliographic databases. The interface provides a multi windowed view of data stored on a relational database management system, using layered attribute value aggregation and classification. The user interrogates the database by invoking automatically formulated SQL queries that filter the contents of each window according to user selected attribute values. The interface is described using 'hand crafted' screens to create realistic examples of HIBROWSE systems for EPOQUE, INSPEC, MEDLINE and EMBASE

Pollitt, A.S.; Ellis, G.P.; Smith, M.P.; Li, C.S.: HIBROWSE: adding the power of relational databases to the traditional IR architecture : the future for Graphic User Interfaces (1994) 0.02
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This paper describes the coming together of two independent programmes developing interfaces which improves access to databases. MenUSE - Menu-based User Search Engine - has been developed to search bibliographic databases whilst HIBROWSE - High Resolution Interface for Database Specific BROWsing and SEarching - is a front-end for searching information stored on structured relational database management systems. Combining the 2 approaches affords the user much greater access capabilities than is possible using traditional retrieval systems. The implications of this are explored in the context of EPOQUE (the European Parliament Online QUEry system) and INSPEC
Pollitt, A.S.; Smith, M.P.; Ellis, G.P.: Peek-a-boo revived : end-user searching of bibliographic databases using filtering views (1994) 0.01
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Demonstrates that a mode of interaction, analogous to the optomechanical principles applied in the Peek-a-Boo system, can be applied in computerized retrieval systems to enhance the quality of human-computer interaction radically and increase effectiveness. The MenUSE (Menu based User Search Engine) software has evolved from constructing explicit Boolean combinations of concepts automatically to using an implicit Boolean searching approach, similar to Peek-a-Boo. Thesauri and classification schemes, together with other searchable values, provide the user with views of a database and a means for the recognition and selection of concepts and other parameters by the end user. The resulting filtering model has been implemented for searching the European Parliament's EPOQUE database and for INSPEC. This second application provides illustrations of the technique for this paper
Pollitt, A.S.; Treglown, M.; Smith, A.P.; Braekevelt, P.A.J.; Ellis, G.P.; Finlay, J.E.; Wade, S.J.: Empowering users for improved database access and analysis through the application of knowledge structure views, progressive refinement techniques and a design approach driven by usability (1996) 0.01
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An approach to accessing databases, which makes extensive use of structured thesaurus views for presenting and searching a large bibliographic database through progressive refinement, is being investigated in a research project which is seeking to apply usability criteria as the determinant for interface design. It aims to investigate measurements of retrieval performance in an application of graphical user interface techniques using multi-windowed layered attribute value aggregation, including those provided by a structured thesaurus, to access bibliographic databases. This paper reports on the progress made in the first year of the project of the application of usability methodologies, the revision of a preliminray design and the resulting prototype development. Implications for more widespread applications are discussed

Pollitt, A.S.; Ellis, G.P.; Smith, M.P.; Gregory, M.R.; Li, C.S.; Zangenberg, H.: ¬A common query interface for multilingual document retrieval from databases of the European Community Institutions (1993) 0.01

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Abstract: Presents EuroMenUSE, a PC-based front-end system developed to improve access to EPOQUE, the major document database of the European Parliament. EuroMenUSEe is an exemplar and the first commercial product to result from the application of the Multilingual MenUSE software shell; in this system it uses the EUROVOC thesaurus. This Common Query interface replaces the Common command Language and provides a more effectve way for end-users to access document databases

Pollitt, A.S.; Ellis, G.P.; Hosch, I.: Improving search quality using thesauri for query specification and the presentation of search results (1994) 0.01
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This paper presents a description and initial results of an evaluation of EuroMenUSE for the MAC, a system which offers an alternative mode of access to EPOQUE, the document database of the European Parliament. Subjects with a professional interest in European Parliament business, but with no prior knowledge of information retrieval systems, were able to search EPOQUE using EuroMenUSE for the Mac. These end-users achieved better retrieval results than similar subjects using the current Guided Search mode in use at the Parliament. They also performed better than subjects knowledgeable in information retrieval, but who had less subject knowledge, using the SIMBAD Common Command Language interface, the mode of access used by professional documentalists in the Parliament and other European Union Institutions

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