Facet lens

Lambeck, Christian; Wojdziak, Jan; Groh, Rainer

doi:10.1145/2079216.2079228

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Interactive Lenses for Visualization: An Extended Survey

Tominski

Gladisch

Kister

et al. 2016

Computer Graphics Forum

105

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The elegance of using virtual interactive lenses to provide alternative visual representations for selected regions of interest is highly valued, especially in the realm of visualization. Today, more than 50 lens techniques are known in the closer context of visualization, far more in related fields. In this paper, we extend our previous survey on interactive lenses for visualization. We propose a definition and a conceptual model of lenses as extensions of the classic visualization pipeline. An extensive review of the literature covers lens techniques for different types of data and different user tasks and also includes the technologies employed to display lenses and to interact with them. We introduce a taxonomy of lenses for visualization and illustrate its utility by dissecting in detail a multi-touch lens for exploring large graph layouts. As a conclusion of our review, we identify challenges and unsolved problems to be addressed in future research.

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Interactive Lenses for Visualization: An Extended Survey

Tominski

Gladisch

Kister

et al. 2016

Computer Graphics Forum

105

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Semantically faceted navigation with topic pies

Deuschel

Greppmeier²,

Humm³

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems

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Faceted search allows navigating through large collections along different dimensions in order to find relevant objects efficiently. Traditional faceted search systems often suffer from a lack of usability; furthermore facets are often static and independent from the search result set. In this paper, we present a dynamic semantic topical faceting approach. It uses a pie menu called topic pie that allows visualisation of facets and user interaction. Depending on the search query, the topic pie presents a set of topics and major topics which help the user to drill down the search result set to relevant objects efficiently as well as to browse exploratively through the collection. The underlying algorithm optimises the conflicting goals relevance and diversity while avoiding information overload. It reveals a good performance on large data sets. As our use-case, we chose literature research in scientific libraries. An evaluation shows major advantages of our approach compared to state-of-the-art faceted search techniques in nowadays library portals.

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Facet lens

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Interactive Lenses for Visualization: An Extended Survey

Interactive Lenses for Visualization: An Extended Survey

Semantically faceted navigation with topic pies

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