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Inventing discovery tools: combining information visualization with data mining
- Information Visualization
, 2002
"... Abstract The growing use of information visualization tools and data mining algorithms stems from two separate lines of research. Information visualization researchers believe in the importance of giving users an overview and insight into the data distributions, while data mining researchers believ ..."
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Abstract The growing use of information visualization tools and data mining algorithms stems from two separate lines of research. Information visualization researchers believe in the importance of giving users an overview and insight into the data distributions, while data mining researchers believe that statistical algorithms and machine learning can be relied on to find the interesting patterns. This paper discusses two issues that influence design of discovery tools: statistical algorithms vs visual data presentation, and hypothesis testing vs exploratory data analysis. The paper claims that a combined approach could lead to novel discovery tools that preserve user control, enable more effective exploration, and promote responsibility.
Visualizing the World-Wide Web with the Navigational View Builder
- Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
, 1995
"... Overview diagrams are one of the best tools for orientation and navigation in hypermedia systems. However, constructing effective overview diagrams is a challenging task. This paper describes the Navigational View Builder, a tool which allows the user to interactively create useful visualizations of ..."
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Overview diagrams are one of the best tools for orientation and navigation in hypermedia systems. However, constructing effective overview diagrams is a challenging task. This paper describes the Navigational View Builder, a tool which allows the user to interactively create useful visualizations of the information space. It uses four strategies to form effective views. These are binding, clustering, filtering and hierarchization. These strategies use a combination of structural and content analysis of the underlying space for forming the visualizations. This paper discusses these strategies and shows how they can be applied for forming visualizations for the World-Wide Web. KEYWORDS: Information Visualization, Overview Diagrams, Binding, Clustering, Filtering, Hierarchization. 1 Introduction One of the major problems with current hypermedia systems is being lost in hyperspace. For example in Mosaic [1] the process of jumping from one location to another can easily confuse the user. ...
Scented widgets: Improving navigation cues with embedded visualizations
- In Proc. of of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 9
, 2007
"... Abstract—This paper presents scented widgets, graphical user interface controls enhanced with embedded visualizations that facilitate navigation in information spaces. We describe design guidelines for adding visual cues to common user interface widgets such as radio buttons, sliders, and combo boxe ..."
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Abstract—This paper presents scented widgets, graphical user interface controls enhanced with embedded visualizations that facilitate navigation in information spaces. We describe design guidelines for adding visual cues to common user interface widgets such as radio buttons, sliders, and combo boxes and contribute a general software framework for applying scented widgets within applications with minimal modifications to existing source code. We provide a number of example applications and describe a controlled experiment which finds that users exploring unfamiliar data make up to twice as many unique discoveries using widgets imbued with social navigation data. However, these differences equalize as familiarity with the data increases. Index Terms—Information visualization, user interface toolkits, information foraging, social navigation, social data analysis. 1
Interface and Data Architecture for Query Preview in Networked Information Systems
, 1997
"... There are numerous problems associated with formulating queries on networked information systems. These include increased data volume and complexity, accompanied by slow network access. This paper proposes a new approach to a network query user interfaces that consists of two phases: query preview a ..."
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There are numerous problems associated with formulating queries on networked information systems. These include increased data volume and complexity, accompanied by slow network access. This paper proposes a new approach to a network query user interfaces that consists of two phases: query preview and query refinement. This new approach is based on the concepts of dynamic queries and query previews, which guides users in rapidly and dynamically eliminating undesired records, reducing the data volume to a manageable size, and refining queries locally before submission over a network. Examples of two applications are given: a Restaurant Finder and a prototype for NASA's Earth Observing Systems--Data Information Systems (EOSDIS). Data architecture is discussed and user feedback is presented. Final version 2 Keywords: user interface, direct manipulation, dynamic query, information system, metadata, query preview, query refinement, science data, NASA EOSDIS. 1. INTRODUCTION The explorat...
Dual Device User Interface Design: PDAs and Interactive Television
- In Proceedings of CHI 96
, 1996
"... Computing environments which involve many interacting devices are a challenge for system and user interface designers. A prototype of a multiple-device application consisting of a personal digital assistant (PDA) that operates in conjunction with interactive television (ITV) was developed from user ..."
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Computing environments which involve many interacting devices are a challenge for system and user interface designers. A prototype of a multiple-device application consisting of a personal digital assistant (PDA) that operates in conjunction with interactive television (ITV) was developed from user requirements for a real estate information service. The application is used both as a stand-alone service and in conjunction with a television. Users interact exclusively with the PDA. The television responds to PDA output and is used for the presentation of visual images and videos. In this paper the application is described and user interface design issues that arise in the context of multiple device systems are discussed. Keywords: Personal digital assistants (PDA), interactive television (ITV), ubiquitous computing, mobile computing, multiple devices. DESIGNING FOR MULTIPLE DEVICES Future computing environments are likely to involve a combination of specialized personal devices that ...
Iterative exploration, design and evaluation of support for query reformulation in interactive information retrieval
- Information Processing and Management
, 2001
"... We report on the progressive investigation of techniques for supporting interactive query reformulation in the TREC Interactive Track task. Two major issues were explored over four successive years: various methods of term suggestion; and, interface design to support different system functionalities ..."
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We report on the progressive investigation of techniques for supporting interactive query reformulation in the TREC Interactive Track task. Two major issues were explored over four successive years: various methods of term suggestion; and, interface design to support different system functionalities. Each year’s results led to the following year’s investigation, with respect to both of these major issues. This paper presents first the general motivation for the entire series of studies; then an overview of each year’s investigation, its results, and how they influenced the next year’s investigation. We discuss what we believe has been learned through this series of investigations about effective term suggestion, usable and useful interface design, and the relationships between these two in support of the TREC Interactive Track task. We conclude with some comments about the general methodology which we employed over this series of studies, and its relevance to the development and evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems in general.
A Task-based Framework to Evaluate Evaluative Arguments
, 2000
"... We present an evaluation framework in which the effectiveness of evaluative arguments can be measured with real users. The framework is based on the task-efficacy evaluation method. An evaluative argument is presented in the context of a decision task and measures related to its effectiveness are as ..."
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We present an evaluation framework in which the effectiveness of evaluative arguments can be measured with real users. The framework is based on the task-efficacy evaluation method. An evaluative argument is presented in the context of a decision task and measures related to its effectiveness are assessed. Within this framework, we are currently running a formal experiment to verify whether argument effectiveness can be increased by tailoring the argument to the user and by varying the degree of argument conciseness.
Supporting the analytical reasoning process in information visualization
- ACM CHI
"... ABSTRACT This paper presents a new information visualization framework that supports the analytical reasoning process. It consists of three views -a data view, a knowledge view and a navigation view. The data view offers interactive information visualization tools. The knowledge view enables the an ..."
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ABSTRACT This paper presents a new information visualization framework that supports the analytical reasoning process. It consists of three views -a data view, a knowledge view and a navigation view. The data view offers interactive information visualization tools. The knowledge view enables the analyst to record analysis artifacts such as findings, hypotheses and so on. The navigation view provides an overview of the exploration process by capturing the visualization states automatically. An analysis artifact recorded in the knowledge view can be linked to a visualization state in the navigation view. The analyst can revisit a visualization state from both the navigation and knowledge views to review the analysis and reuse it to look for alternate views. The whole analysis process can be saved along with the synthesized information. We present a user study and discuss the perceived usefulness of a prototype based on this framework that we have developed.
The Attribute Explorer: information synthesis via exploration. Interacting with
- Computers
, 1998
"... The Attribute Explorer is a visualization tool in which the graphical and interactive presentation of data supports the human acquisition of insight into that data. The underlying concept employed is that of interactive linked histograms. The advantage of the Attribute Explorer derives from its abil ..."
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The Attribute Explorer is a visualization tool in which the graphical and interactive presentation of data supports the human acquisition of insight into that data. The underlying concept employed is that of interactive linked histograms. The advantage of the Attribute Explorer derives from its ability to support both qualitative exploration and quantitative design decisions, as well as a smooth transition
User interface evaluation of a direct manipulation temporal visual query language
- In MULTIMEDIA ’97: Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Multimedia
, 1997
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