A Scrollbar-based Visualization for Document Navigation

Abstract

We are interested in questions of improving user control in best-match text-retrieval systems, specifically questions as to whether simple visualizations that nonetheless go beyond the minimal ones generally available can significantly help users. Recently, we have been investigating ways to help users decide-given a set of documents retrieved by a query-which documents and passages are worth closer examination. We built a document viewer incorporating a visualization centered around a novel content-displaying scrollbar and color term highlighting, and studied whether the visualization is helpful to non-expert searchers. Participants' reaction to the visualization was very positive, while the objective results were inconclusive.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA365685

Entities

People

  • Donald Byrd

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Education
  • Governments
  • Hard Copy
  • Hazardous Waste
  • Information Retrieval
  • Judgment
  • Measurement
  • Operating Systems
  • Psychology
  • Students
  • Training
  • User Interface

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