Information visualization for searching and browsing: Theories and applications (SIG HCI)
Xia Lin, Jin Zhang, Allison Druin, Javed Mostafa, Dietmar Wolfram · Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 2004
There is a growing awareness that information visualization holds a great potential for effective information access.The challenge to realize the potential, however, is multi-fold.Advances are needed in various aspects of information visualization, including new metaphors for visual content representation, new methods for visual query construction, refinement and execution, new visual presentation to support human cognitive and perceptual activities, and new understanding of how to make information visually accessible to a variety of information seekers, from children to office workers.This panel brings together information visualization researchers to discuss their recent research findings and address both theoretical and practice issues related to information visualization.Each presenter will discuss problems they attempt to solve, issues they encounter, and solutions they create and test.Javed Mostafa will discuss the application of visualization methods in a bioinformation environment, from both theoretical and application perspectives.He will clarifL where visualization fits in the query defmition, execution, presentation, and refinement of the general information retrieval framework developed by Shneiderman, Byrd, and Croft.