The best, most focused paper.

Marti Hearst, TileBars: Visualization of Term Distribution Information in Full Text Information Access, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI), pp. 59-66, Denver, CO, May 1995. postscript (6.5M)   html

Anecdotal description of the users responses to TileBars as part of an interface that uses Scatter/Gather as well.

Marti Hearst, Jan Pedersen, Peter Pirolli, Hinrich Schuetze, Gregory Grefenstette, and David Hull, Four TREC-4 Tracks: the Xerox Site Report, Proceedings of the Fourth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-4), Nov 1-3, Arlington, VA, 1996. postscript (11M)

This paper shows that the kind of ranking conducive to TileBars actually performs better in a standard Information Retrieval measurement framework than a standard ranking algorithm (vector space) when evaluting on very short queries at high levels of precision.

Marti Hearst, Improving Full-Text Precision on Short Queries using Simple Constraints , Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (SDAIR), Las Vegas, NV, April 1996. postscript (1.3M)

A videotape that shows both TileBars and Scatter/Gather.

Marti Hearst and Jan Pedersen, Revealing Collection Structure through Information Access Interfaces, Video track on the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Montreal, Canada, Volume II, 2047-2048, 1995.

A shorter version of this videotape that shows only TileBars.

Marti Hearst and Jan Pedersen, Visualizing Information Retrieval Results: A Demonstration of the TileBar Interface, Video track on the in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 1996.