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Finding information in unknown, large data sets is not an easy task, especially if they consist of documents in an unfamiliar domain. A collection of several hundred technical reports has been analyzed in order to organize it for efficient and fluent searching, browsing, navigation and even exploration. We describe a user study on an interactive system – the EFB-Explorer – that visualizes the data set by different attributes to reflect the specific relevance of a retrieved document to a user’s query and offers easy-to-use zooming interaction as well as semantic zooming.
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Nitsche, M., Haun, S., Nürnberger, A. (2013). Exploring Technical Documents: A Prototype Study. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 374. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39476-8_90
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