Multiple-view approach for smooth information retrieval

Abstract

Although various visualization techniques have been proposed for information retrieval tasks, most of them are based on a single strategy for viewing and navigating through the information space, and vague knowledge such as a fragment of the name of the object is not effective for the search. In contrast, people usually look for things using various vague clues simultaneously.For example, in a library, people can not only walk through the shelves to find a book they have in mind, but also they can be reminded of the author's name by viewing the books on the shelf and check the index cards to get more information.To enable such realistic search strategies, we developed a multiple-view information rerneval system where data visualization, keyword search, and category search are integrated with the same smooth zooming interface, and any vague knowledge about the data can be utilized to narrow the search space. Users can navigate through the information space at will, by modifying the search area in each view.

LensList: Browsing and Navigating Long Linear Information Structures

“…Several variations of the fisheye technique have been explored. They have been used in one dimension for word processing [6], access to time [7], and for long lists [8,9]. They have been used in two dimensions for tables [10], graphical maps [11] and space scale diagrams [12].…”

“…Some applications of fisheye distortion techniques have been carefully evaluated [14], often finding a significant advantage to fisheye views [15][16][17]. Masui's work [8,9] is more relevant to ours in terms of handling long lists. However they adopted the overview + detail strategy, which is essentially different to the focus and context method.…”

LensTree: Browsing and Navigating Large Hierarchical Information Structures

“…Several variations of the fisheye technique have been explored. They have been used in one dimension for word processing [7], access to time [9], and for long lists [10,11]. They have been used in two dimensions for tables [14], graphical maps [16] and space scale diagrams [6].…”

Web information retrieval based on user operation on digital maps

“…Digital maps are becoming more and more popular among Web users because users can easily change the map screen area and adjust the scale [1,2,3] as they search for a desired geographic location. They generally do this by performing sequences of map operations.…”