DocumentCode
2173809
Title
Multiform glyph based web search result visualization
Author
Roberts, Jonathan ; Boukhelifa, Nadia ; Rodgers, Peter
Author_Institution
Kent Univ., Canterbury, UK
fYear
2002
fDate
2002
Firstpage
549
Lastpage
554
Abstract
Searching for information on the web is hard; the user may not know what they are looking for, they may refine their search from information gathered by preliminary naive searches, and they may be looking for luminous sites that have many external links so that they can browse further. Information visualization can aid the user in many of these search related tasks. Certainly, the user is familiar with browsing and manipulating the search results through textual style interfaces, but they would gain a better understanding of the information through different presentation methods. Thus, we believe rank ordered lists should be used along-side abstract information visualization presentations. We present a system that displays multiple views of search result information. It provides views for displaying abstract visualization designs using multiform glyphs as well as a ranked text based list. Our engine also retrieves detailed information about the located sites (such as size of page, and quantities of internal and external links); and we describe two glyph designs that display this rich information.
Keywords
data visualisation; search engines; WWW; abstract visualization; glyphs; information visualization; multiple views; search engine; search results; web search; Data visualization; Displays; Image retrieval; Information filtering; Information filters; Information retrieval; Search engines; Web search; Web sites; World Wide Web;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Visualisation, 2002. Proceedings. Sixth International Conference on
ISSN
1093-9547
Print_ISBN
0-7695-1656-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IV.2002.1028828
Filename
1028828
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