Title :
Elastic lists for facet browsers
Author :
Stefaner, Moritz ; Müller, Boris
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Appl. Sci. Potsdam, Potsdam
Abstract :
In the context of current web and personal information management developments, we argue that facet browsing is an increasingly important interface paradigm. However, current implementations neglect two important aspects of metadata distributions: the relative proportions of metadata occurrences and the unusualness of this proportion compared to a global profile. Based on focus & context visualization techniques, we enhance facet browser user interfaces with "elastic lists" to make the resulting weighted metadata profiles visually accessible and navigable. The principle is currently developed and tested in several domains.
Keywords :
information management; meta data; online front-ends; context visualization techniques; current Web context; elastic lists; facet browsers; interface paradigm; metadata distributions; personal information management developments; weighted metadata profiles; Databases; Expert systems; Feeds; Information management; Production; Subscriptions; Tagging; User interfaces; Visualization; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2007. DEXA '07. 18th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Regensburg
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2932-5
DOI :
10.1109/DEXA.2007.44