Client-Side Visualization of Internet Forums for Information Retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Guangfeng Song

  • Affiliations:
  • Penn State Greate Allegheny, USA PA 15132

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Part IV: Interacting in Various Application Domains
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presented a method to visualize Internet forums on the client side. Enhancement to web browsing was proposed to solve problems in information retrieval from forums. Specifically, visualization of structural information provided useful overviews for web browsing. A conceptual model described forums as three-dimensional spaces with information objects as points and web browsing as movements in the spaces. A series of diagrams were proposed to provide overviews for users' web browsing movements. Implementation of the visualization system and examples of the diagrams were presented in the paper.