InfoMaps : A Session Based Document Visualization and Analysis Tool

Author

Kolman, Sebastin ; Dufilie, Andrew S. ; Anbalagan, Sanjay Krishna ; Grinstein, Georges

Author_Institution

Inst. for Visualization & Perception Res., Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 July 2012

Firstpage

274

Lastpage

282

Abstract

InfoMaps is an information visualization tool designed for personal information management and for supporting data analysis. In this paper we briefly discuss the design of InfoMaps and explain its role in finding relevant information. InfoMaps is tightly coupled with Weave, an open source framework, providing a set of data analysis and visualization tools. Weave´s framework is built with session states as its core and this provides InfoMaps the ability to store the entire user´s interactions as well as visualization layouts. We discuss the implications of using the Weave framework with InfoMaps and its relevance to the field of information retrieval and visual analytics.

Keywords

data analysis; data visualisation; design engineering; document handling; public domain software; InfoMaps design; Weave framework; data analysis; information retrieval; information visualization tool; open source framework; personal information management; session based document analysis tool; session based document visualization; visual analytics; Browsers; Data visualization; Image color analysis; Layout; Servers; Visualization; Weaving; infomaps; information retrieval; viri; visual information retrieval interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualisation (IV), 2012 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montpellier

ISSN

1550-6037

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2260-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2012.54

Filename

6295826