1. C. Ahlberg & B. Shneiderman (1994)
Visual Information Seeking: Tight Coupling of Dynamic Query Filters with Starfield Displays
C. Ahlberg & B. Shneiderman (1994)
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2. Goal: Support Browsing
Rapid filtering
Progressive refinement
Continuous reformulation of goals
Visual scanning
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3. Principles of Direct 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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4. 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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7. 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 Filters Fishkin & 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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20. Magic Lenses – Missing Data
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Visage: A User Interface Environment for Exploring Information Roth 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 Libraries C. 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
is247/s02/lectures/fishkin-lenses-queries.ppt
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