The iceberg metaphor to support the knowledge crystallization cycle

Author

Lux, Miriam

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Comput. Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

283

Lastpage

287

Abstract

Information visualization is focused on abstract non-numerical data. To support any user to explore this information the knowledge crystallization cycle was defined. We have developed the iceberg metaphor which can be used to support the user in every single step of this knowledge crystallization cycle. The iceberg can be filled with almost any kind of abstract information. Then the iceberg metaphor can be used to perform a classification as well as a filtering of the information. Using this metaphor for visualization is very simple but effective because the graphical presentation correspondents to the information-inherent structure. Additionally, with the developed iceberg browser all interactions concerning the knowledge crystallization are controllable. Thus, we have found a very simple but effective way to support the user in the formation of knowledge with one single metaphor

Keywords

data visualisation; user interfaces; abstract information; abstract nonnumerical data; classification; filtering; graphical presentation; iceberg browser; iceberg metaphor; information visualization; information-inherent structure; knowledge crystallization cycle; Computer graphics; Crystallization; Data visualization; Information analysis; Information filtering; Information filters; Performance analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0743-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2000.859769

Filename

859769