Integrating Interactive Visualizations in the Search Process of Digital Libraries and IR Systems
Abstract
Interactive visualizations for exploring and retrieval have not yet become an integral part of digital libraries and information retrieval systems. We have integrated a set of interactive graphics in a real world social science digital library. These visualizations support the exploration of search queries, results and authors, can filter search results, show trends in the database and can support the creation of new search queries. The use of weighted brushing supports the identification of related metadata for search facets. We discuss some use cases of the combination of IR systems and interactive graphics. In a user study we verify that users can gain insights from statistical graphics intuitively and can adopt interaction techniques.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1201.2515,
title = {Integrating Interactive Visualizations in the Search Process of Digital Libraries and IR Systems},
author = {Daniel Hienert and Frank Sawitzki and Philipp Schaer and Philipp Mayr},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2515},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
To be published as a Poster Paper in the Proceedings of ECIR 2012