Visualization of retrieval results using DART
Eun-Il Cho, Sung Hyon Myaeng · 2000
In most information retrieval systems, especially those in the Web, users suffer from too many search results force them to go through a long list of document surrogates that may not reveal their contents sufficiently. This paper describes our attempt to provide a solution to this problem: a new visual interface for search results and a system architecture that supports the visualization technique. The visual interface is evaluated for its efficacy with human subjects. Our interface, DART, displays document clustering information and the similarity values between individual documents and different sub-queries. With the distinguishing colors and brightness of the icons representing documents scattered on a series of concentric circles resembling a dart target, users can make intuitive judgment as to which one they want to read next . Based on our experiments, users acquire relevant documents more quickly with the DART display than with the conventional document list. 1. Introduction I...