Improving the usability of faceted exploratory search tools

Mohammed Najah Mahdi (Institute of Informatics and Computing in Energy (IICE), Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia)
Abdul Rahim Ahmad (College of Computing and Informatics Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia)
Qais Saif Qassim (Department of Information Technology, Ibri College of Technology, Sultanate of Oman)
Roslan Ismail (College of Computing and Informatics Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia)

TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)
Vol 20, No 1: February 2022

For some years now, the faceted exploratory search has faced tremendous challenges to devise a simple, instantly understandable, and usable user interface to explore the vast amount of data and information available on the Internet. In our previous research, we have indicated certain burdens with some of the existing approaches. Therefore, in this research, we are trying to uncover the attributes that influence users to use the faceted feature of the exploratory search technique. In this paper, we presented several key elements of existing search engine systems, the best of their major features were explored, and guidelines that will help to improve the usability of faceted exploratory search have been suggested and offers a further understanding of the fundamental characteristics of the faceted search, which shows the motivations to use the search, also presented the main parts of a pluggable search system.