Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries

Katy Börner

School of Library and Information Science

Indiana University, Bloomington

katy@indiana.edu

LVis - Digital Library Visualizer (1999/2000)

Investigators: Katy Börner & Andrew Dillon, SLIS & Margaret Dolinsky, School of Fine Arts, IU

LVis aims to support the navigation through complex information spaces. It provides a multi-modal, virtual reality interface that maps data stored in digital libraries onto an 'information landscape'. This landscape can then be explored by human users in a natural manner that will support efficient search through related articles. The 2-D and 3-D prototype visualizes search results from the Dido Image Bank, Department of the History of Art, IU.

The research was supported by a High Performance Network Applications grant of Indiana University (1999-2000).

WWW: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/InfoVis

Lvis - Motivation

Present search results not as

rank-ordered lists of matching documents

but as

clusters of semantically similar documents

LVis: Data Analysis

Latent Semantic Analysis

Hierarchical Clustering

Selection of Best Partition

LVis: System Architecture

LVis: Prototype Systems

DIDO Image Data Bank

Indiana University

Science Citation Index, ISI

LVis: 3-D Data Visualization

“head” into a search result - “get inside a head”

LVis: Usability Studies

Comparison of text-based and 2-D desktop interface and 3-D immersive CAVE interface.

Error rates and completion times for a range of different tasks.

Learning curves (2-D visualization & Wand). Navigation in 3-D.

A comparison of free sorting results for images by human subjects and by Latent Semantic Analysis.

LVis: ResultsKaty Börner: Visual Interfaces for Semantic Information Retrieval and Browsing. Vladimir

Groimenko and Chaomei Chen (Eds.), Visualizing the Semantic Web: XML-based Internet and Information Visualization, Springer Verlag, 2002.

Katy Börner & Chaomei Chen: JCDL Workshop: Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries – Its Past, Present, and Future. Proceedings of the First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Roanoke, VA, USA, p. 482, 2001.

Katy Börner, Andrew Dillon & Margaret Dolinsky: LVis - Digital Library Visualizer. Information Visualisation 2000,Symposium on Digital Libraries, London, England, 19 -21 July, pp. 77-81, 2000.

Katy Börner: Searching for the perfect match: A comparison of free sorting results for images by human subjects and by Latent Semantic Analysis, Information Visualisation 2000, Symposium on Digital Libraries, London, England, 19 -21July, pp. 192-197, 2000.

Katy Börner: Extracting and visualizing semantic structures in retrieval results for browsing. ACM Digital Library Conference, San Antonio, Texas, June 2-7, pp. 234-235, 2000.

Katy Börner: Visible Threads: A smart VR interface to digital libraries. Proceedings of IST/SPIE's 12th Annual International Symposium: Electronic Imaging 2000, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis (SPIE 2000), San Jose,CA, 23-28 January, pp. 228-237, 2000.

Information Visualization Software Repository:http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/L697/code/

Katy Börner & Yuezheng Zhou: A Software Repository for Education and Research in Information Visualization. Information Visualisation Conference, London, England, July 25-27, pp. 257-262, 2001.

Collaborative Information Spaces (2001-present)

Investigator: Katy Börner, SLIS, IU Collaborators: Sy-Miaw Lin, Yu-Chen Lin, Ying Feng, Min Xiao

iPalace and iGarden are ‘twin worlds’ used to design and evaluate a shared resource of online documents for faculty and students at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. It will be seeded with about 8,000 links to online documents (text, images, video, software demonstrations, etc.). The links will be collected from personal favorites or bookmark lists. About 300 people will have access to this space although we expect less than 20 to be logged on at any point in time.

The research was supported by a High Performance Network Applications grant of Indiana University (2000-2001) and an Academic Equipment Grant by SUN Microsystems.See also http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/research/

Collaborative Information Spaces

Mirror GardensVisualize user interaction data

to evaluate the effectiveness and usability, to optimize design properties, or to examine the

evolving user community of a world.

Memory PalacesProvide intuitive, efficient, and collaborative document access for a scholarly community.

Indiana University’s Collaborative Information Universe (2001-present)

This project is a collaboration between the School of Library and Information Science and UITS’ Advanced Visualization Laboratory. The project's goal is to provide a 3D web-based collaboration mechanism for all IU faculty, staff and students on any of the eight IU campuses, located throughout the state of Indiana.http://iuni.slis.indiana.edu/

iUni Virtual World

User 0

Object click activity

Navigation activity

Collaborative Information Spaces: ResultsKaty Börner: Using Twin Worlds to Research Digital Cities and Their Evolving

Communities. The Second Kyoto Meeting on Digital Cities Digital Cities 2001 - International Symposium and Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, October 18-20. To be published by Springer.

Katy Börner, Ying Feng & Tamara McMahon: Collaborative Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries. Accepted for the Second ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, July 14-18, 2002, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Ying Feng & Katy Börner: Using Semantic Treemaps to Categorize and Visualize Bookmark Files. In Visualization and Data Analysis 2002. Robert F. Erbacher, Philip C. Chen, Matti Grohn, Jonathan C. Roberts, Craig M. Wittenbrink (eds), January 20-25, 2002, San Jose, CA, USA, Proceeding of SPIE, Volumn 4665, pp. 218-227.

Katy Börner: iScape: A collaborative memory palace for digital library search results. Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, New Orleans, LA, August 5-10, M. J. Smith, G. Salvendy, D. Harris, R. J. Koubek (Eds) Usability Evaluation and Interface Design, Volume 1, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, London, pp. 1160-1164, 2001.

Katy Börner & Yu-Chen Lin: Visualizing Chat Log Data Collected in 3-D Virtual Worlds. Information Visualisation Conference, London, England, July 25-27, pp. 141-146, 2001.

Submission DeadlineMay 12th, 2002.