SkyView: a user evaluation of the skyline operator

TY - GEN

T1 - SkyView

T2 - 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

AU - Magnani, Matteo

AU - Assent, Ira

AU - Hornbæk, Kasper

AU - Jakobsen, Mikkel Rønne

AU - Larsen, Ken Friis

N1 - Conference code: 22

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - The skyline operator has recently emerged as an alternative to ranking queries. It retrieves a number of potential best options for arbitrary monotone preference functions. The success of this operator in the database community is based on the belief that users benefit from the limited effort required to specify skyline queries compared to, for instance, ranking. While application examples of the skyline operator exist, there is no principled analysis of its benefits and limitations in data retrieval tasks. Our study investigates the degree to which users understand skyline queries, how they specify query parameters and how they interact with skyline results made available in listings or map-based interfaces.

AB - The skyline operator has recently emerged as an alternative to ranking queries. It retrieves a number of potential best options for arbitrary monotone preference functions. The success of this operator in the database community is based on the belief that users benefit from the limited effort required to specify skyline queries compared to, for instance, ranking. While application examples of the skyline operator exist, there is no principled analysis of its benefits and limitations in data retrieval tasks. Our study investigates the degree to which users understand skyline queries, how they specify query parameters and how they interact with skyline results made available in listings or map-based interfaces.

U2 - 10.1145/2505515.2505739

DO - 10.1145/2505515.2505739

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4503-2263-8

SP - 2249

EP - 2254

BT - CIKM '13

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

Y2 - 27 October 2013 through 1 November 2013

ER -