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Abstract | ||
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The visualization of results is a critical component in search engines, and the standard ranked list interface has been a consistently predominant model. The emergence of social media provides a new opportunity to investigate visualization techniques that expose socially derived links between objects to support their exploration. Here we introduce and evaluate network-based visualizations for facilitating the exploration of a Web knowledge space. We developed a force directed network interface to visualize the result sets provided by GiveALink.org, a social bookmarking site. The classifications and tags by users are aggregated to build a social similarity network between bookmarked resources. We administered a user study to evaluate the potential of leveraging such social links in an exploratory search task. During exploration, the similarity links are used to arrange the resources in a semantic layout. Users in our study prefer a hybrid interface combining a conventional ranked list and a two dimensional network map, allowing them to find the same amount of relevant information using fewer queries. This behavior is a direct result of the additional structural information present in the network visualization, which aids them in the exploration of the information space. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2008 | 10.1145/1379092.1379132 | Hypertext 1999 |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
social similarity network,social bookmarking site,hybrid interface,dimensional network map,social media,additional structural information present,social link,network visualization,exploratory search,network interface,information space,human factors,interaction network | Graph drawing,Network mapping,World Wide Web,Social search,Computer science,Visualization,Information space,Knowledge space,Exploratory search,Network interface | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
9 | 0.74 | 20 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Donaldson | 1 | 86 | 7.91 |
| Michael Conover | 2 | 783 | 42.50 |
| Benjamin Markines | 3 | 502 | 22.08 |
| Heather Roinestad | 4 | 191 | 10.04 |
| Filippo Menczer | 5 | 3874 | 268.67 |