Supporting Relevance for Users – a Design Challenge

www.designforcontext.comDuane Degler@ddeglerduane@designforcontext.com

Supporting Relevance for Users — a Design Challenge SEMTECH BIZ 20133rd June 2013, San Francisco

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ALS Link relationships

Text patterns

Categories / keywords

Metadata

“Relevant” content is in the eye of the beholder – users – associated with their goals.

In UX design, mental modeling and user research help assess expectations, providing context for semantic application design.

Why am I seeing this?

Challenges we look for

• User response to links• Signal problems

• Weak signals• Signal density• Signal switching

• Result density• Clue misalignment

User response to links

Invitations to stop reading

Great distance between

purpose and substance

User response to links

Links are often a distraction, digression or diversion.If it’s important, it should be available without undue navigation.

Consider where to: Link

Summarize

Incorporate

Signal challenges

Weak signals Not enough context parameters to know what “relevant” means Either not enough metadata in content, or not enough in usage

Signal density Too many attributes without sufficient value identification

• Auto-tagging (“semantic annotation”) without curation• Ambiguous content – it’s about too many things• Sources of user signals too diffuse

Signal challenges

Signal switching Stale signals

• Signal lifecycles: Firefly or tortoise?

Multi-tasking or task-switching• Moved on to next task, interrupted temporarily• Multi-dimensional evolving situation

• Japan – Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear risk• Firefighters – Blaze, Medical needs, Gas/chemical risk

Out of context – e.g. making dinner reservations while at the office

Other challenges

Result density Too many possible “related” items, without clear ranking/weighting

• Big events• Big content stores or broadly federated content

Clue misalignment Link names do not align with purpose, creating confusion Setting expectations with the user

Relevance signals

Relevance models are informed by content structure

Their experience and motivations

Their tasksand questions

Their situation or context

Relevance models are also informed by knowing your users

Content relationships and

“about-ness”

Don’t guess!

Relevance signals

• Content• User & usage• Task & domain• Situation

Content navigation as an exploratory process

The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques for the Online Search InterfaceMarcia Bates, 1989, http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/berrypicking.html

Universe of Interest

Universe of Knowledge

Carry-forward relevance

Building patterns from attributes

Deeper user control (search)

Link relationships

Text patterns

Metadata

Is about

Has timewindow

Promptsaction

Related to

Directly related to Indirectly

related to

Has timewindow

Governs

Hasattributes

Requires

Incorporates

Createdby

Managedby

Relevance signals

Relevance is informed by the user and patterns of use

I bring… Expectations

• Nature of content / data• How things work

External goals provided by my personal/work situation and role

Education Experience Relationships with other people

Hmm… I haven’t done

this before

Real-time preference statements

“Get to know me” preference statements

Saving classification as a preferences

Common filters

Personal filters

ALS Usage patterns

Experience

Interests / profile

History

Community

Certifies

Changedfrom

Manages

Practices

Trainedto do

Has role

Hasyears

Requires

Controlsteam

Workswith

Adopts

Removed

Has role

Speaks/reads

Relevance signals

Relevance is perceived based on the user’s task

I … Complete a task Transact business Look for something specific Read generally Explore a subject See what’s new/newsworthy Play

I want to dig deeper into this…

Surprise me!

Given this, I also need to

look at…

This isn’t what I’m looking for…

I’m done…now what?

Tasks produce path patterns

1 2 3 4 5 Yellow brick road (set path)

8Family Circus(wandering)

Spelunking(deep dive)

Window shopping (look-leave-look)

!Serendipitous (‘aha’ discovery)

Reflecting task, user and content relevance

Goal: embed in application

User control in task

The increase in OA-related musculoskeletal pain especially in the growing elderly population has created heightened interest in effective treatments with better safety profiles. The Glucosamine/chondroitin Arthritis Intervention Trial (GAIT) was designed to examine the effects of the dietary supplements glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate given alone or in combination as compared to celeecox or placebo on pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee. The primary symptomatic outcome assessment of the GAIT study was after 24 weeks of randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled therapy.[6] An ancillary structural study describing the effects of the agents on radiographic joint space width loss for up to two years has also recently been reported.[7] To date, very few data have been reported for the long-term treatment of OA with any agent including the supplements and celecoxib studied here. Patients in the structural study continued to have safety and clinical efficacy assessments at all scheduled visits. This paper details the clinical efficacy and safety experience with these agents alone and in combination along with celecoxib as compared to placebo in patients from this subset of GAIT over 24 months of follow-up.

chondroitin sulfatecelecoxib

Capture knowledge of important terms

radiographic joint space

Add note, action

Search on this now

Tag forTag for search

Control how terms are applied

Search Phrase

Search Builder Assist:

Operator ToolbarSpecial SymbolsEquations and Formulas

arthritis +4and methotrexate

arthritis – synonyms and instances

Ankylosing spondylitis

Gonococcal arthritis

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

Psoriatic arthritis

Reactive arthritis (Reiter syndrome)

Rheumatoid arthritis (in adults)

Scleroderma

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

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Outcomes / goals

Rules / requirements

Criticality

Sequence / status

Frequency for user

Requires compliance

Promptsexception

Has timewindow

Meetsstandards

Appliesto

Defines

In status

Timed by Controls

Controlsaction

Supports

Monitors

Requires

Relevance signals

Situations – tech responds in different ways

Relevance is informed by the user’s situation

I am… In a place Focused on a time period With certain people Among devices Engaged in events Responding to expectations Bound by policies / rules

I need something

I’m planning

for…

Situation awareness under user control?

ALS Location

Co-occurring events

Date / time

Conditions

Devices / connectivity

Requires compliance

Connected to

Has securitycriteria

Occurson

Alert by

Located

Capableof

Arranged

Invites

Requires

Controlledby

Summary

ALS Location

Co-occurring events

Date / time

Conditions

Devices / connectivity

ALS Usage patterns

Experience

Interests / profile

History

Community

Link relationships

Text patterns

Metadata

Outcomes / goals

Rules / requirements

Criticality

Sequence / status

Frequency for user

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