Incremental computation of information landscapes for dynamic web interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Vedran Sabol;Kamran Ali Ahmad Syed;Arno Scharl;Markus Muhr;Alexander Hubmann-Haidvogel

  • Affiliations:
  • Know-Center Graz, Graz, Austria;Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria;MODUL University Vienna, Vienna, Austria;Know-Center Graz, Graz, Austria;MODUL University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the IX Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a technique for the visual analysis of topical shifts in dynamically changing textual archives. Our approach is based on the well-known information landscape metaphor, whereby topical changes are represented by changes in landscape topography. Incremental clustering and multi-dimensional scaling algorithms are periodically applied to a changing document set for generating a series of information landscapes. The resulting landscapes are suitable for dynamic Web interfaces, enabling the user to explore topical relationships and understand topical shifts and trends in changing document repositories.