A user interface for distributed multimedia database querying with mediator supported refinement

Author

Cruz, Isabel F. ; James, Kimberly M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

36373

Firstpage

433

Lastpage

441

Abstract

The Delaunay^MM system supports an interactive, customizable interface for querying multimedia distributed databases, such as digital libraries. Through this interface, users select virtual document styles that cater the display of query results to their needs, while also offering transparent preand post-query refinement and querying. Delaunay^MM´s virtual documents preserve context by maintaining a single customizable interface for result viewing. The advanced transparent query features rely on mediation to provide adept access to information. In this paper, we present the framework for Delaunay^MM, its architecture, the user interface, and results of the first usability study

Keywords

digital libraries; distributed databases; multimedia databases; query processing; user interfaces; Delaunay^MM system; context preservation; distributed multimedia database querying; information access; interactive customizable interface; mediation; mediator supported refinement; result viewing; transparent post-query refinement; transparent pre-query refinement; transparent querying; usability study; user interface; virtual document style selection; Computer science; Displays; Electrical capacitance tomography; Engineering profession; Information retrieval; Instruments; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; User interfaces; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database Engineering and Applications, 1999. IDEAS '99. International Symposium Proceedings

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0265-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IDEAS.1999.787295

Filename

787295