The vocabulary problem in human-system communication
Communications of the ACM
A behavioural model for information retrieval system design
Journal of Information Science
InfoCrystal: a visual tool for information retrieval & management
CIKM '93 Proceedings of the second international conference on Information and knowledge management
LyberWorld—a visualization user interface supporting fulltext retrieval
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
External cognition: how do graphical representations work?
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Using explicit ontologies in KBS development
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Modern Information Retrieval
Effective Visualization and Navigation in a Multimedia Document Collection Using Ontology
PReMI '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
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Visualisation has significant advantages over traditional textual lists for improving cognition in information retrieval. To realise these advantages, we identify a set of cognitive principles and usage patterns for information retrieval. We apply these principles and patterns to the design of a prototype visual information retrieval system, Bubbleworld. In Bubbleworld, we apply a variety of visual techniques that successfully transform the internal mental representations of the information retrieval problem to an efficient external view and, through visual cues, provide cognitive amplification at key stages of the information retrieval process. We enhance the knowledge acquisition process by providing query refinement and interaction techniques that facilitate the specification of complex search schemas and integrate these with the mechanisms to incorporate predefined ontological models. We then attempt to validate the new visual techniques through empirical user trials to gain a better understanding of its benefits.