1. MOVIE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM INFORMATION VISUALIZATION & PROPOSING NEW INTERFACE IAT 814 Adrian Bisek

2. Outline Introduction Problem Approach Techniques Outcomes Screenshot of IMDb webpage 2012 Compare

3. Introduction The researchers are drawn to make the IMDb search results better as it employs a traditional approach to database queries with textual response in forming scrolling lists. Pages Scrollbars Hyperlinks

4. Problem We have very powerful search engines, which search through large collections of data. Movies Cast Crew Audio Video Images “Present the results visually” “Tiresome and tedious navigation due to the long lists”

5. Problem The searched results of IMDb are represented in the typical linear fashion. The standard style of click the link to view details of a particular movie is practiced here while it is useful for normal text based web navigation. Because by clicking a particular link the user’s focus is shifted to the new page, and if the information presented is not to their interest, they then need to switch back to the first page. The first page doesn’t show movies information such as genres, pictures, and actors of each movie. Listed Issues

6. Approach Main Goal: “The main goal is to develop a 2D presentation of information on movies from the IMDB (Internet Movie Database)” “The aim is to amplify the perception of users over the retrieval environment while preserving the output quality at an acceptable meaningful level.” Aim:

7. Approach Three Phases: “Phase one introduces the data preparation that consists of a list of over 20,000 Actors/Actresses.” “Phase two explains the data analyses and results… … by extracting some summarized information … … mainly to speed up our visualization process.” “Phase three is the design of the visualization.”

8. Techniques Genre Colour Wheel / Pie ChartIcons/Symbols for quick recognitionYear block (Grouping of 1 and 2)Triangle of Information 12 34

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10. Compare Screenshot of IMDb webpage 2010 via Wayback Machine

11. Outcome User Testing Results Overall there were positive qualitative results 12 Participants 5 minutes Perform two tasks Both interfaces

12. Conclusion Well? Interaction? Is this system the answer to browsing? Does it answer questions that current IMDb site doesn’t Did they design on the right techniques to display data? Does this have potential? Questions/Comments?

13. Compare Screenshot of IMDb webpage 2012