Integration of browsing, searching, and filtering in an applet for web information access

ABSTRACT

Improvements to information access on the World Wide Web has to be considered one of today's strategic challenges. In this paper we present a Java applet called AMIT (Animated Multiscale Interactive TreeViewer) that integrates fisheye tree browsing with search and filtering techniques. Used in combination with a web walker, a search server, and a tree server, it shows promise as a scalable solution to information access in configurable web spaces.

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Keywords:
animation, browsing, filtering, fisheye, information access, information visualization, search, world wide web