Examination of Arrangement Support Functions for Emphasizing User´s Intentions on Keyword Map

The keyword map, which is a kind of information visualization systems, has been studied for visualizing keyword space. This system shows keywords and relationships between keywords by a graph drawing method, and is equipped with interactive features. However, existing keyword map has not considered positively the reflection of user´s intention in keyword space. In this paper, the keyword map equipped with arrangement supporting functions is proposed for emphasizing user´s intention. The relation between user´s intentions and their usages of arrangement supporting functions is examined through experiments