Thursday October 30, 3:30pm — EEB 105
(Co-hosted with the CSE Colloquium; please note the date and location.)
(Co-hosted with the CSE Colloquium; please note the date and location.)
Seeking Simplicity in Search User Interfaces
Marti Hearst
Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley
ABSTRACT
It is rare for a new user interface to break through and become
successful, especially in information-intensive tasks like search,
coming to consensus or building up knowledge. Most complex interfaces
end up going unused. Often the successful solution lies in a
previously unexplored part of the interface design space that is
simple in a new way that works just right. In this talk I will give
examples of such successes in the information-intensive interface
design space, and attempt to provide stimulating ideas for future
research directions.
BIO
Dr. Marti Hearst is a professor in the School of Information at UC
Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science
Division. Her primary research interests are user interfaces for
search engines, information visualization, natural language
processing, and improving MOOCs. She wrote the first book on Search
User Interfaces. Prof. Hearst was named a Fellow of the ACM in 2013
and has received an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Award, two Google
Research Awards, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, three Excellence in
Teaching Awards, and has been principal investigator for more than
$3.5M in research grants. Prof. Hearst has served on the Advisory
Council of NSF's CISE Directorate and is currently on the Web Board
for CACM, member of the Usage Panel for the American Heritage
Dictionary, and on the Edge.org panel of experts. She is on the
editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and
was formerly on the boards of ACM Transactions on the Web,
Computational Linguistics, ACM Transactions on Information Systems,
and IEEE Intelligent Systems. Prof. Hearst received BA, MS, and PhD
degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at
Berkeley, and she was a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC
from 1994 to 1997.