Open AccessUsing map‐based visual interfaces to facilitate knowledge discovery in digital libraries
Author(s) -
Buchel Olha,
Sedig Kamran
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801099
Subject(s) - computer science , knowledge extraction , interface (matter) , visual analytics , human–computer interaction , cognition , digital library , data science , user interface , visualization , world wide web , artificial intelligence , psychology , neuroscience , art , literature , poetry , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing , operating system
In recent years there has been growing interest in supporting knowledge discovery activities using map‐based visual interfaces. The goal is promising and ambitious, but not very easy to achieve due to the lack of understanding of cognitive factors involved in how information is transformed into knowledge. In this paper we present a map‐based visual interface, VICOLEX (VIsual COLlection Explorer), aimed at facilitating and supporting knowledge discovery and users' cognitive activities by means of integrated visual representations coupled with interactions.