Frankenplace: Interactive thematic mapping for Ad Hoc exploratory search

WWW 2015 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 12-22

  Adams, Benjamin ^a   McKenzie, Grant ^b   Gahegan, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploratory searc; Geographic search; Information retrieval; Information visualization; Interactive search; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EXPLORATORY SEARC; GEOGRAPHIC SEARCH; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE SEARCH; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84968724907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2736277.2741137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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