Presenting bibliographic families using information visualization: Evaluation of FRBR‐based prototype and hierarchical visualizations

Abstract

Since their beginnings, bibliographic information systems have been displaying results in the form of long, textual lists. With the development of new data models and computer technologies, the need for new approaches to present and interact with bibliographic data has slowly been maturing. To investigate how this could be accomplished, a prototype system, FrbrVis1, was designed to present work families within a bibliographic information system using information visualization. This paper reports on two user studies, a controlled and an observational experiment, that have been carried out to assess the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)‐based against an existing system as well as to test four different hierarchical visual layouts. The results clearly show that FrbrVis offers better performance and user experience compared to the baseline system. The differences between the four hierarchical visualizations (Indented tree, Radial tree, Circlepack, and Sunburst) were, on the other hand, not as pronounced, but the Indented tree and Sunburst design proved to be the most successful, both in performance as well as user perception. The paper therefore not only evaluates the application of a visual presentation of bibliographic work families, but also provides valuable results regarding the performance and user acceptance of individual hierarchical visualization techniques.

Visualizations of bibliographic information: A user experience study

“…Findings on all measures from the 2012 study in Slovenia were published in Merčun et al (2017). Preliminary comparisons using only the one common work family with the same user tasks, Don Quixote , were reported in Merčun et al (2016a) with additional comparison findings discussed here.…”

“…A series of studies performed by Merčun, Aalberg, and Žumer examine the visualization prototype FrbrVis using different visualization techniques and FRBR-based bibliographic data to test performance and user experience. Findings show that the prototype with visualization displays rated better in efficiency, effectiveness, and user experience than the traditional Baseline display, which also included faceted navigation (Aalberg et al, 2017; Merčun et al, 2016b, 2017).…”

“…A number of studies used FRBR as the basis to examine potential improvements in system design, display of results, and hierarchical browsing of work-based information, including exploring relationships among variations of a work and relationships between works represented in the bibliographic data (Carlyle, 2006; Mimno et al, 2005; Zhang and Salaba, 2012) but most importantly the potential to enhance users’ experience when searching and browsing bibliographic data. A few FRBR-based prototypes were developed and tested (Zhang and Salaba, 2009) but very few examined FRBR-based implementations of visualizing bibliographic information (Merčun et al, 2017).…”

PTVis: Visual Narrative and Auxiliary Decision to Assist in Comprehending the Penetration Testing Process

“…In the field of penetration testing, the structure, file types, and data volume of the website directory usually need more attention in directory scan results. PTVis displays the results based on the sunburst model [51] [52]. The file types are encoded in different colours.…”

Interactive Displays for the Next Generation of Entity-Centric Bibliographic Models

“…Our previous work on display of FRBR-based information resulted in the development of the FRBRVis prototype and extensive user testing [21,20]. There the focus was on supporting browsing and exploration and choosing the best visualization technique.…”