TY - JOUR

T1 - The InfoSky viusal explorer

T2 - Exploiting Hierarchical Structure and Document Similarities

AU - Andrews, Keith

AU - Kienreich, Wolfgang

AU - Sabol, Vedran

AU - Becker, Jutta

AU - Droschl, Georg

AU - Kappe, Frank

AU - Granitzer, Michael

AU - Auer, Peter

AU - Tochtermann, Klaus

PY - 2002

Y1 - 2002

N2 - InfoSky is a system enabling users to explore large, hierarchically structured document collections. Similar to a real-world telescope, InfoSky employs a planar graphical representation with variable magnification. Documents of similar content are placed close to each other and are visualised as stars, forming clusters with distinct shapes. For greater performance, the hierarchical structure is exploited and force-directed placement is applied recursively at each level on much fewer objects, rather than on the whole corpus. Collections of documents at a particular level in the hierarchy are visualised with bounding polygons using a modified weighted Voronoi diagram. Their area is related to the number of documents contained. Textual labels are displayed dynamically during navigation, adjusting to the visualisation content. Navigation is animated and provides a seamless zooming transition between summary and detail view. Users can map metadata such as document size or age to attributes of the visualisation such as colour and luminance. Queries can be made and matching documents or collections are highlighted. Formative usability testing is ongoing; a small baseline experiment comparing the telescope browser to a tree browser is discussed.

AB - InfoSky is a system enabling users to explore large, hierarchically structured document collections. Similar to a real-world telescope, InfoSky employs a planar graphical representation with variable magnification. Documents of similar content are placed close to each other and are visualised as stars, forming clusters with distinct shapes. For greater performance, the hierarchical structure is exploited and force-directed placement is applied recursively at each level on much fewer objects, rather than on the whole corpus. Collections of documents at a particular level in the hierarchy are visualised with bounding polygons using a modified weighted Voronoi diagram. Their area is related to the number of documents contained. Textual labels are displayed dynamically during navigation, adjusting to the visualisation content. Navigation is animated and provides a seamless zooming transition between summary and detail view. Users can map metadata such as document size or age to attributes of the visualisation such as colour and luminance. Queries can be made and matching documents or collections are highlighted. Formative usability testing is ongoing; a small baseline experiment comparing the telescope browser to a tree browser is discussed.

U2 - 10.1057/PALGRAVE.IVS.9500023

DO - 10.1057/PALGRAVE.IVS.9500023

M3 - Article

VL - 1.2002

SP - 166

EP - 181

JO - Information Visualization

JF - Information Visualization

SN - 1473-8716

IS - 3-4

ER -