Talk given at Semantic Business 2011, London, UK

1. Semantic User Interfaces Ian Dickinson Epimorphics Ltd [email_address] @ephemerian

2. Agenda Context Semantic UI patterns Cautions

3. Framing: who, what & why? “ Semantic user interface” ... For semantic professionals End-user value Triples inside

6. accurately

7. cheaply

9. Patterns

10. Travel travails

13. copied

14. disambiguated

15. merged

18. which contains Museum Island

19. which contains the Pergamon Museum

21. ontologies

23. present users with richer descriptions

24. Location, location, integration

25. R&D R&D

28. reduce cognitive workload

31. The ubiquitous tag

34. semantic query

35. Triples: visible or invisible? vs.

37. visible objects should represent meaningful things

38. stick & bubble graphs: limited utility

39. Where am I? Where next?

40. Facets: here & next step filters where we are now? choices for the next facet search step

41. Pivoting: stepping to adjacent topic all presidents all presidents' spouses

42. Related items or an associated topic an alternate spelling “ discover”

44. history (and bookmarks)

45. choices for next step

46. collections of results

49. broader / narrower

52. display the content as usefully as possible

54. user-directed

56. simplicity

57. coherence

59. autonomy

61. messy

62. open-ended

63. long-lived

64. …

66. rich navigation

67. visualise interrelationships

70. Dunes pattern – Mollivan Jon http://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/347366159/

71. Wooden bench – MaretH. http://www.flickr.com/photos/maret1983/6057025004/

72. Tree climbing – drainhook http://www.flickr.com/photos/drainhook/4643191611/

73. Tug of war – Eric Skiff http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericskiff/517809478/

75. Talis – BIS research funding consulting.talis.com/case-study/bis-research-funding-explorer/

76. Marti Hearst (U. Berkeley) – Flamenco facet browser flamenco.berkeley.edu/

77. David Hyunh (Google) – Parallax browser www.freebase.com/labs/parallax/

78. Christina Scheutz (Serials Solutions) – AquaBrowser © aqua.queenslibrary.org/

79. Ian Davis (Talis) – LinkSailor linksailor.com