Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web

Benford, Steve; Taylor, Ian; Brailsford, David F.; Koleva, Boriana; Craven, Michael P.; Fraser, Mike; Reynard, Gail; Greenhalgh, Chris

doi:10.1145/345966.346021

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“…However, it differs from the work presented in this paper by focusing on visualizing properties of a single article, while our visualization focuses on the relationships between articles as well as other Wikipedia entities. Work into visualizing the world wide web dates back to its early days (see [7] for a review from that time), but as it is concerned with the generic world wide web, not with the specific web-based application of Wikipedia, it differs from our work in two ways: its data source are web pages, whereas for WikiVis the data source is the Wikipedia database; and it determines web page relationships by examining the explicit link structure among pages, whereas in WikiVis the relationships are determined by examining co-author relationships between Wikipedia articles.…”

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Visualizing Co-Authorship Networks in Online Wikipedia

Biuk-Aghai

2006

2006 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies

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The Wikipedia online user-contributed encyclopedia has rapidly become a highly popular and widely used online reference source. However, perceiving the complex relationships in the network of articles and other entities in Wikipedia is far from easy. We introduce the notion of using co-authorship of articles to determine relationship between articles, and present the WikiVis information visualization system which visualizes this and other types of relationships in the Wikipedia database in 3D graph form. A 3D star layout and a 3D nested cone tree layout are presented for displaying relationships between entities and between categories, respectively. A novel 3D pinboard layout is presented for displaying search results.

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Visualizing Co-Authorship Networks in Online Wikipedia

Biuk-Aghai

2006

2006 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies

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“…Benford et al [5] surveyed the work finished by the year 2000 on visualizing the World Wide Web using 3D-graphics, which include visualization efforts on web structure, browsing history, searches, evolution of the web, as well as the dynamic behaviors of multiple users. Au et al [2] introduced a system to visually display the distribution of search results by grouping these results into topics according to their keywords.…”

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A new visual search interface for web browsing

Jin

Lau

2009

Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

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We introduce a new visual search interface for search engines. The interface is a user-friendly and informative graphical front-end for organizing and presenting search results in the form of topic groups. Such a semantics-oriented search result presentation is in contrast with conventional search interfaces which present search results according to the physical structures of the information. Given a user query, our interface first retrieves relevant online materials via a thirdparty search engine. And then we analyze the semantics of search results to detect latent topics in the result set. Once the topics are detected, we map the search result pages into topic clusters. According to the topic clustering result, we divide the available screen space for our visual interface into multiple topic displaying regions, one for each topic. For each topic's displaying region, we summarize the information contained in the search results under the corresponding topic so that only key messages will be displayed. With this new visual search interface, users are conveyed the key information in the search results expediently. With the key information, users can navigate to the final, desired results with less effort and time than conventional searching. Supplementary materials for this paper are available at

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“…Other visualizations for multimedia or hyperlinked contents are surveyed in [1]. None of these utilizes a double-sided landscape.…”

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3D Syllabus: Interactive Visualization of Indexes to Multimedia Training Content

Song

Lertsithichai

Chiu

2005

Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2005

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Abstract. Indexes such as bookmarks and recommendations are helpful for accessing multimedia documents. This paper describes the 3D Syllabus system, which is designed to visualize indexes to multimedia training content along with the information structures. A double-sided landscape with balloons and cubes represents the personal and group indexes, respectively. The 2D ground plane organizes the indexes as a table and the third dimension of height indicates their importance scores. Additional visual properties of the balloons and cubes provide other information about the indexes and their content. Paths are represented by pipes connecting the balloons. A preliminary evaluation of the 3D Syllabus prototype suggests that it is more efficient than a typical training CD-ROM and is more enjoyable to use.

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Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web

Cited by 29 publications

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Visualizing Co-Authorship Networks in Online Wikipedia

Visualizing Co-Authorship Networks in Online Wikipedia

A new visual search interface for web browsing

3D Syllabus: Interactive Visualization of Indexes to Multimedia Training Content

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