Semantic Web User Interfaces: A Systematic Mapping Study and Review
Ghislain Hachey, Dragan Ga · 2012
Context: Exploration of user interfaces has attracted a considerable attention in Semantic Web research in the last several years. However, the overall impact of these research eorts and the level of the maturity of their results are still unclear. Objective: This study aims at surveying existing research on Semantic Web user interfaces in order to synthesise their results, assess the level of the maturity of the research results, and identify needs for future research. Method: This paper reports the results of a systematic literature review and mapping study on Semantic Web user interfaces published between 2003 and 2011. After collecting a corpus of 87 papers, the collected papers are analysed through four main dimensions: general information such as sources, types and time of publication; covered research topics; quality of evaluations; and nally, used research methods and reported rigour of their use. Results: Based on only the obtained data, the paper provides a high level overview of the works reviewed, a detailed quality assessment of papers involving human subjects and a discussion of the identied gaps in the analysed papers and draws promising venues for future research. Conclusion: We arrive at two main conclusions: important gaps exist which hinder a wide adoption of Semantic Web technologies (e.g. lack user interfaces based on semantic technologies for social and mobile applications) and experimental research hardly used any proven theories and instruments specically designed for investigating technology acceptance.