Features

Introduction

LETICIA is an open-source and customizable web platform for interactive information retrieval (IIR) studies. Its main purpose is to serve as a base for user study design and implementation in IIR, with little to no coding requirements to create a study.

LETICIA is built as an effort to ease study creation for IIR researchers and offer a state of the art platform to be applied both in local and remote environments. LETICIA can be used as-is from its already developed modules, or as a starting point for developing custom modules and functionalities.

Main Features

• Fully operational platform for search tasks in IIR studies
• User interaction capture (visited pages, queries, keyboard and mouse actions, among others)
• Simulated web search environment (powered by Apache Solr)
• Non-relational database storage (powered by MongoDB)
• “Easy to deploy” server component (on GNU/Linux)
• No install required for participants (runs through web browser)
• Integrated out of the box web crawler
• Support for search task personalization
• Customizable study experience (for participants)
• Customizable forms, questionnaires and studies
• Multi-language frontend (i18n support)
• Extensible and modular approach (through its REST API)
• Released as open source software (AGPL v3)

Install Instructions

To use LETICIA, you need to clone (or download as ZIP) the source code from LETICIA’s GitHub Repository. Up-to-date instructions for deploy (either on development or production mode) are available on the README.md file. Source code is available on src/ directory. Full documentation can be found on the docs/ directory.