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1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '95)
Case study: fishing for information on the Internet
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
October 30-October 31
ISBN: 0-8186-7201-3
R. Mitchell, Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA, USA
D. Day, Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA, USA
L. Hirschman, Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA, USA
As the Internet continues to grow, the amount of accessible information becomes increasingly vast. Search tools exist that allow users to find relevant information. However, a search can often produce such a large amount of data that it becomes hard to ferret out the most appropriate and highest quality information. In addition, some search tools lose valuable information when displaying the results to the user. The paper describes a search visualization tool, called FISH, for viewing hierarchically structured information and managing information overload. FISH (Forager for the Information Super Highway) allows users to visualize the results of search requests across large document spaces in a way that preserves the structure of the information space. FISH displays the returned documents as rectangles, using a combination of order, indentation, size, and color to denote document hierarchy, the score of the documents with respect to the search, and other data attributes. In addition, the user can navigate through the document space for in-depth probing and refinement.
Index Terms:
Internet; data visualisation; information retrieval; online front-ends; Internet; search tools; FISH search visualization tool; hierarchically structured information viewing; information overload management; search requests; large document spaces; returned documents; order; indentation; size; color; document hierarch; data attributes; user navigation
Citation:
R. Mitchell, D. Day, L. Hirschman, "Case study: fishing for information on the Internet," ieee_infovis, pp.105, 1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '95), 1995
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