Information visualization and retrieval using stereoscopic display of document and term relations

Richard H. Fowler; Wendy A. Lawrence Fowler

doi:10.1117/12.307158

30 April 1998 Information visualization and retrieval using stereoscopic display of document and term relations

Richard H. Fowler, Wendy A. Lawrence Fowler

Proceedings Volume 3295, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems V; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.307158
Event: Photonics West '98 Electronic Imaging, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Scientific visualization brings human perceptual processes to bear in organizing and understanding data about physical phenomena. Information visualization has a similar goal for elements in often semantic domains. Document Explorer is an information visualization and retrieval system that displays 3D associative network representations of document and term relations. The system's networks of documents can be constructed from existing measures of association, e.g., link structure in hypertexts, or derived by the system using content similarity among documents. The system also maintains a network of terms which is available to the user for query formulation. Recently, we have added stereoscopic display of the system's several networks to enhance users' perception of structure. Additionally, users' head movements are tracked and used to change point and angle of view to further enhance structure perception and allow additional user interface mechanisms for navigation in three dimensions. By viewing and interacting with these networks using head-tracked stereoscopic display the user is better able to perceive relationships in the networks and, thus, better able to distinguish clusters of documents and categories of terms during the information retrieval process.

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Richard H. Fowler and Wendy A. Lawrence Fowler "Information visualization and retrieval using stereoscopic display of document and term relations", Proc. SPIE 3295, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems V, (30 April 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.307158

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