Category Archives: Displays

Findex: search result categories help users when document ranking fails

Posted on March 23, 2012 by mzarro

Käki, M. (2005). Findex: search result categories help users when document ranking fails. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI  ’05 (pp. 131–140). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/1054972.1054991 In this study, a web search … Continue reading →

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A Novel Approach to Visualizing and Navigating Ontologies

Posted on February 17, 2012 by mzarro

Motta, E., Mulholland, P., Peroni, S., d’ Aquin, M., Gomez-Perez, J., Mendez, V., & Zablith, F. (2011). A novel approach to visualizing and navigating ontologies. The Semantic Web–ISWC 2011, 470–486. This work reports on a visualization tool, KC-Viz, for navigating … Continue reading →

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Selected results of a comparative study of four ontology visualization methods for information retrieval tasks

Posted on November 19, 2010 by mzhang

Citation Katifori. A., Torou. E., Vassilakis. C., Lepouras, G., Halatsis, C.. Selected results of a comparative study of four ontology visualization methods for information retrieval tasks. Research Challenges in Information Science, 2008: 133 – 140 Summary This paper is a … Continue reading →

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Information is Beautiful

Posted on November 14, 2010 by xlin

There are plenty of good examples and inspirations of how information can be displayed.  Here are the three most popular collections of information visualization samples.  Many are beautiful, but not many are meaningful to the viewer.  Could KOS structures help … Continue reading →

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Visual Interfaces for Semantic Information Retrieval and Browsing

Posted on November 11, 2010 by jdeng

Katy Borner(2002).Visual Interfaces for Semantic Information Retrieval and Browsing. Groimenko, Vladimir and Chen, Chaomei(Eds), Visualizing the Semantic Web: XML-based Internet and Information Visualization, Springer Verlag, Chapter 7, pp. 99-115 Summary The paper describes several approaches to semantic information retrieval and … Continue reading →

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Supporting user tasks through visualisation of light-weight ontologies

Posted on November 7, 2010 by hzhao

Fluit, C., Sabou, M., & Van Harmelen, F. (2003). Supporting user tasks through visualisation of light-weight ontologies. In Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems (pp. 415–434). Springer-Verlag. This paper explores how to use visualizations in ontology-based semantic web. Based on … Continue reading →

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Ontology visualization methods – a survey

Posted on November 6, 2010 by mzhang

Citation Akrivi Katifori, Constantin Halatsis, George Lepouras, Costas Vassilakis, Eugenia Giannopoulou. Ontology visualization methods – a survey. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2007(39):10:1-10:39 Summery This paper overviews different technologies for ontology visualization. It is an attempt to summarize existing literature related … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Knowledge Visualization for Cross-Community Learning

Posted on November 4, 2010 by kbertel

Citation: Novak, J., Wurst, M. (2005). Collaborative Knowledge Visualization for Cross-Community Learning. Knowledge and Information Visualization, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. 3426: 95-116. Summary: This paper primarily deals with developing a tool for sharing knowledge among individual users and a community … Continue reading →

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STAR Project

Posted on October 27, 2010 by mzhang

1. Binding C., Tudhope D., May K. 2008. Semantic Interoperability in Archaeological Datasets: Data Mapping and Extraction via the CIDOC CRM. Proceedings (ECDL 2008) 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Aarhus, 280–290. Lecture Notes in … Continue reading →

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Backward highlighting: Enhancing faceted search

Posted on October 27, 2010 by mzhang

Wilson, M., André, P., & schraefel, m. c. (2008). Backward highlighting: Enhancing faceted search. In S. Cousins & M. Beaudouin-Lafon (Eds.), Proceedings of the twenty-first annual ACM international symposium on user interface software and technology (UIST) (pp. 235–238). New York, … Continue reading →

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