VisGets: Coordinated visualizations for web-based information exploration and discovery

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1205-1212

  Dörk, Marian ^a   Carpendale, Sheelagh ^b   Collins, Christopher ^a   Williamson, Carey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exploratory search; Information retrieval; Information visualization; Visual information seeking; World wide web

Indexed keywords

COMBINE FILTERS; DATA DIMENSIONS; DATA FILTERS; DYNAMIC SEARCHES; EXPLORATORY SEARCH; EXPLORATORY SEARCHES; INFORMATION EXPLORATIONS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE QUERIES; ON-LINE; ONLINE INFORMATIONS; SEARCH INTERFACES; VISUAL INFORMATION SEEKING; VISUAL INFORMATIONS; WEB RESOURCES; WEB-BASED;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; INTERNET; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; VISUALIZATION; WAVE FILTERS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 54949105783     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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