An evaluation of semantic fisheye views for opportunistic search in an annotated image collection |
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Authors: | Paul Janecek Pearl Pu |
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Affiliation: | (1) Human Computer Interaction Group, I&C-IFF, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | Visual interfaces are potentially powerful tools for users to explore a representation of a collection and opportunistically discover information that will guide them toward relevant documents. Semantic fisheye views (SFEVs) are focus + context visualization techniques that manage visual complexity by selectively emphasizing and increasing the detail of information related to the users focus and deemphasizing or filtering less important information.In this paper we describe a prototype for visualizing an annotated image collection and an experiment to compare the effectiveness of two distinctly different SFEVs for a complex opportunistic search task. The first SFEV calculates relevance based on keyword-content similarity and the second based on conceptual relationships between images derived using WordNet. The results of the experiment suggest that semantic-guided search is significantly more effective than similarity-guided search for discovering and using domain knowledge in a collection. |
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Keywords: | Context+focus techniques Semantic fisheye views Visual information retrieval interfaces Empirical user study |
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