Findability Day 2015 - Martin White - The future is search!

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Martin White - Keynote

Findability DayMartin White

Intranet Focus Ltd and Information School, University of Sheffield1 October 2015

1st edition (2012) 152pp

2nd edition (2015) 306pp

Running order

• The story so far• Collaborative discovery• Why just a single screen?• Mobile enterprise search• The blurring of the boundaries• Complex tasks• Next generation search – 2020 vision

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In the beginning

15 years later

Today

http://www.digital-workplace-trends.com/

Why?

• Organisational attitudes to search• Recognition of the value of information but no commitment to information

management• The majority of organisations have failed to invest adequately in technology, a

search team, taxonomy development, metadata and content quality

• Cognitive barriers to search • Vendor attitudes to marketing and sales• Search is difficult!• Business requirements are not being recognised

Cognitive barriers to information seeking

• Inability to articulate information needs• Unawareness of relevant information sources• Low self-efficacy, where the user feels that it will be difficult to obtain the

documents• Poor search skills• Inability to deal with information overload

Professor Reijo SavolainenSchool of Information Sciences at the University of Tampere

The vendor perspective

Search is difficult!

Future requirements – now!

• Bringing the power of teams to search• Significant improvements in supporting the user dialogue• Searching on the move• Unstructured and structured – who cares?• Being able to undertake complex search tasks• The world outside on your desktop

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Collaborative discovery

• Many collaboration solutions have poor quality search applications• Repository management becomes a nightmare• We work with partners, which can lead to difficult security management

issues

Searching together

• Increasing amount of academic research into• Collaborative information seeking• Collaborative discovery• Coordinated exploration

• Different names - same concepts?

Why a single UI?

Why not nine?

Advanced search

Tactical suggestions to further a search

Filtering inthe result list

Extraction offrequent terms Tool for managing

user groups

Personal libraryfor storing,tagging and sharing

Multiple windows

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Moving at 5km/min

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Enterprise search

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Text analytics Data analytics

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intelligence

Subscription search

CIKM’14, November 3 – 7, 2014, Shanghai, China.

Many search scenarios involve more complex tasks such as learning about a new topic or planning a vacation.

These tasks often involve multiple search queries and can span multiple sessions.

Current search systems do not provide adequate support for tackling these tasks.

Instead, they place most of the burden on the searcher for discovering which aspects of the task they should explore.

Particularly challenging is the case when a searcher lacks the task knowledge necessary to decide which step to tackle next.

https://mindfulstew.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/addicted-to-information/information-overload-conceptual-image/

Voice interactionCross-language search

Multiple depth screens using touch/swipe

User-defined crawl

Predictive searchUser-defined UX

More of what we will need!

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