Tree visualization with tree-maps: 2-d space-filling approach
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
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SIGIR '91 Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Graph drawing by force-directed placement
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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Information Retrieval
The effects of information scent on visual search in the hyperbolic tree browser
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Gestalt theory in visual screen design: a new look at an old subject
CRPIT '02 Proceedings of the Seventh world conference on computers in education conference on Computers in education: Australian topics - Volume 8
Lighthouse: Showing the Way to Relevant Information
INFOVIS '00 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Vizualization 2000
ScentTrails: Integrating browsing and searching on the Web
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Effects of scent and breadth on use of site-specific search on e-commerce Web sites
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Real-time collaboration through visual search and voice-over-IP
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
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This paper describes a user friendly, powerful information foraging tool. Document sets are presented through combinations of traditional ranked lists and 2-dimensional proximity-based visualisations, created by uniting graph-theoretic clustering and force-directed layout techniques, where article positions are determined by inter-document similarities. By using Gestalt principles and information encoding, the simple layout improves search efficiency by leveraging human cognitive strengths that have generally been under-utilised in commercial GUI development. In this paper, design and realisation of the layout technique are described in the context of an article browsing framework. Results of an indicative comparative laboratory study, which evaluates the client application --- and in particular Graph-Theoretic Force-Directed (GTFD) visualisations against traditional search engine interfaces --- are then presented. This study demonstrates the advantage of graphical presentations when browsing an article collection. Finally, potential improvements identified during the study are discussed, as are future directions for this approach to collection browsing