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Visual Information Seeking:

Tight Coupling of Dynamic Query Filters with Starfield DisplaysC. Ahlberg & B. Shneiderman (1994)

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Goal: Support Browsing

Rapid filtering Progressive refinement Continuous reformulation of goals Visual scanning

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Principles ofDirect Manipulation

Visual representation of the world in action

Rapid, incremental, and reversible actions

Selection by pointing Immediate and continuous display

of results

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Visual Information Seeking Interaction

Methods Dynamic Query Filters Starfield Displays Tight Coupling

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Dynamic Query Filters

Sliders & buttons used to reduce items in result set

Dynamic HomeFinder Dynamic Periodic Table

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Dynamic HomeFinder

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Dynamic Periodic Table of Elements

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Dynamic Query Filters

Alphaslider for selection of text items

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Starfield Displays

Useful when no natural mapping exists

Scatterplot + Selection + Zooming

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Tight Coupling

Interface design principles- Reveal the software state- Constrains user from erroneous

or useless actions- Comprehensible & consistent affordances- Rapid, incremental, reversible

interactions- Continuous display- Output-is-input- Progressive refinement- Details on demand

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FilmFinder

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FilmFinder

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FilmFinder

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Spotfire

Founded by Ahlberg in 1996

Provides “interactive, visual data analytics applications and services”

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Spotfire

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Cited By

Enhanced Dynamic Queries via Movable FiltersFishkin & Stone (1995)

Starfield displays “Magic Lenses” allow:

- More complex queries- Display of missing information- Eventually, fuzzy matching

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Magic Lenses

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Magic Lenses - AND

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Magic Lenses - OR

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Magic Lenses – Missing Data

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Cited By

Visage: A User Interface Environment for Exploring InformationRoth et al. (1996)

Visage now being developed by Maya design group

Interface to SAGE graphics generator Development focused on military

logistics planning systems

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Visage

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Briefly Mentioned By

Visualising Semantic Spaces and Author Co-Citation Networks in Digital LibrariesC. Chen (1999)- “Spatial metaphors are by far the most

popular design principle for information visualisation,”

Information Retrieval on the Web M. Kobayashi & K. Takeda (2000)- Literature Review

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Image Sources

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/spotfire/ http://www.maya.com/visage/base/scenario.html http://spotfire.com/products/

decisionsite_posters.cfm http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/

is247/s02/lectures/fishkin-lenses-queries.ppt http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/

book_people/visualization/controls/alphaslider.htm