FOCUS: the interactive table for product comparison and selection
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A comparative usability evaluation of user interfaces for online product catalog
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Managing multiple focal levels in Table Lens
INFOVIS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '97)
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DIS '04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
An Interactive Visual Interface for Online Product Catalogs
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CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Understanding cultural heritage experts' information seeking needs
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Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis: Principles and Examples (Computer Science and Data Analysis)
Making a Clean Sweep of Cultural Heritage
IEEE Intelligent Systems
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Supporting subject matter annotation using heterogeneous thesauri
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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ESWC'06 Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on The Semantic Web: research and applications
Ontological access to images of fine art
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)
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Comparison search is an information seeking task where a user examines individual items or sets of items for similarities and differences. While this is a known information need among experts and knowledge workers, appropriate tools are not available. In this paper, we discuss comparison search in the cultural heritage domain, a domain characterized by large, rich and heterogeneous data sets, where different organizations deploy different schemata and terminologies to describe their artifacts. This diversity makes meaningful comparison difficult. We developed a thesaurus-based comparison search application called LISA, a tool that allows a user to search, select and compare sets of artifacts. Different visualizations allow users to use different comparison strategies to cope with the underlying heterogeneous data and the complexity of the search tasks. We conducted two user studies. A preliminary study identifies the problems experts face while performing comparison search tasks. A second user study examines the effectiveness of LISA in helping to solve comparison search tasks. The main contribution of this paper is to establish design guidelines for the data and interface of a comparison search application. Moreover, we offer insights into when thesauri and metadata are appropriate for use in such applications.