New Book: Search User Interfaces, by Marti Hearst - read online free

The full text of this book can be read free of charge. Chapters include:

• 0: Preface:
  an overview of the structure of the book, and a guide to who should read which parts.
• 1: Design of Search User Interfaces:
  introduces the ideas and practices surrounding search interface design, places modern design in a historical context, and summarizes design guidelines for search interfaces.
• 2: Evaluation of Search User Interfaces:
  includes informal studies, formal studies, longitudinal studies and log-based analysis including bucket testing. Presents extensive device about how to avoid evaluation mistakes.
• 3: Models of the Information Seeking Process:
  summarizes the theoretical models about information seeking, and discusses information needs and query intent.
• 4: Query Specification:
  includes textual queries, natural language questions, query specification forms, dynamic feedback, and operators and commands.
• 5: Presentation of Search Results:
  includes document surrogates, properties of results listings, summaries (snippets) as used in search results and user response to search results ordering.