Publication Type:
Conference Paper
Source:
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. 11th International Workshop on, p.586-590 (2000)
URL:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/7035/18943/00875084.pdf
Keywords:
BarGraph;
business data processing;
business information;
data visualisation;
future work;
HTML-List;
information resources;
information seeking process;
INSYDER;
ResultTable;
ScatterPlot;
search engines;
search result phase;
SegmentViews;
visual information seeking sy
Abstract:
The paper discusses the evaluation of a visual information seeking system for the Web called INSYDER. The aim of INSYDER is to find business information on the Web. The evaluation compares different visualizations including HTML-List, ResultTable, ScatterPlot, BarGraph and SegmentViews. These visualizations support the interpretation of the search result phase of the information seeking process. First results of the evaluation with forty users are presented and an outlook on future work is given