The visual display of quantitative information
The visual display of quantitative information
Effectiveness of a graphical display of retrieval results
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Visualization of search results: a comparative evaluation of text, 2D, and 3D interfaces
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Empirical studies of information visualization: a meta-analysis
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Empirical evaluation of information visualizations
An empirical comparison of visualization tools to assist information retrieval on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Ordered and quantum treemaps: Making effective use of 2D space to display hierarchies
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Proceedings of the 2006 AVI workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization
Journal of Management Information Systems
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The task of searching for documents is becoming more challenging as the volumes of data stored continues to increase, and retrieval systems produce longer results list. Graphical visualisations can assist users to more efficiently and effectively understand large volumes of information. This work investigates the use of multiple visualisations in a desktop search tool. These visualisations include a List View, Tree View, Map View, Bubble View, Tile View and Cloud View. A preliminary evaluation was undertaken by 94 participants to gauge its potential usefulness and to detect usability issues with its interface and graphical presentations. The evaluation results show that these visualisations made it easier and quicker for them to find relevant documents. All of the evaluators found at least one of the visualisations useful and over half of them found at least three of the visualisations to be useful. The evaluation results support the research premise that a combination of integrated visualisations will result in a more effective search tool. The next stage of work is to improve the current views in light of the evaluation findings in preparation for the scalability and longitudinal tests for a series of increasingly larger result sets of documents.