Publikation
Invoking a Sense of Orientation in Digital Libraries
Inessa Seifert; Kai-Florian Richter
In: Thora Tenbrink; Stephan Winter (Hrsg.). Presenting Spatial Information: Granularity, Relevance, and Integration. Conference on spatial information theory (COSIT-09), September 21-25, Aber Wrac'h, France, SFB/TR8 and University of Melbourne, 2009.
Zusammenfassung
In our contribution, we will discuss how understanding of visualization and interaction with the information discovery system DiLiA (Digital Library Assistant) [1] can be improved by recurring to properties and principles of human spatial problem solving and avigation in real world environments. We will outline the properties that these two problem domains have in common and also highlight the differences between them. In the end, we will propose a visualization of a data space that is inspired by the discussed principles and also makes use of principles of faceted search. This visualization should invoke in users a sense of orientation in scientific literature that is created by intelligently presenting digital libraries' content.