Hearst's CHI 2006 course is now online

I missed this the first time, but I wanted to also draw your attention
to a course at the upcoming CHI2006 conference in Montreal (April
22-26) at which Hearst, and Smalley + Chandler(both from eBay) will be
presenting a course titled
"Faceted metadata for information architecture and search"
you've got a chance to view the PDF here even if you can't attend:
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/talks/chi_course06.pdf

Many thanks to Marti for her generosity!

From the description:

The purpose of this course is to introduce and explain a systematic approach to
designing information architecture for web sites consisting of large
collections of items.
The main goals of the approach are to produce websites with multiple
different views to
reflect differences in user's preferred search and browsing methods,
to incorporate
search uniformly throughout the design of the site, and to do this in
a manner that makes
use of standard technology and allows non-experts to be able to add to
the content of
the site without disturbing the other properties.

The main objective of the course is to instruct attendees about how to integrate
navigation and search for large collections in a seamless, flexible
manner that helps
users find things quickly and browse items comfortably. The course
will present a
method for developing such interfaces and steer attendees away from
common pitfalls.
It will also present justifications for the approach in the form of
usability results and real world application of the ideas. Finally, it
will point out the limitations of the approach.


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