DocumentCode
2008466
Title
Using a degree of interest model to facilitate ontology navigation
Author
D´Entremont, Tricia ; Storey, Margaret-Anne
Author_Institution
Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
fYear
2009
fDate
20-24 Sept. 2009
Firstpage
127
Lastpage
131
Abstract
Understanding and maintaining the structure of large ontologies is a cognitively demanding task. Visualizations are commonly used as a cognitive aid for presenting large ontologies and instance data. One challenge with these visual techniques is that the generated views are often very dense and complex. It is difficult for users to navigate to concepts within the overall structure that meet the needs of the current task. In this paper, we present our work towards understanding the cognitive support requirements for navigating ontologies and our application of these requirements to the design of a plugin for the popular ontology editor Protege.
Keywords
cognition; human factors; ontologies (artificial intelligence); Protege; cognitive aid; degree of interest model; ontology editor; ontology navigation; plugin design; visual techniques; Navigation; Ontologies;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2009. VL/HCC 2009. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location
Corvallis, OR
ISSN
1943-6092
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-4876-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VLHCC.2009.5295284
Filename
5295284
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