Personalized galaxies of information
Earl Rennison · 1995
The Personalized Galaxies of Information demonstration presents a new interface approach for visualizing, navigating and accessing information objects in a large body of unstructured information, such as on-line news stories, photographs and video clips available via Clarinews; electronic mail; and World Wide Web documents. The system provides mechanisms to analyze the relationships between information objects and builds a representation of the underlying structure of the entire body of information. This relational structure is used to construct a visual information space with which the user interacts to explore the contents of the information base. The system also uses a learning algorithm to adaptively customize the presentation of information to a particular user's interests. This dynamic, personalized structuring of information helps users perform directed searches while simultaneously affording general browsing in a fluid and seamless environment. KEYWORDS: Information visualizat...