The relation browser tool for faceted exploratory search

ABSTRACT

The Relation Browser (RB) is a tool developed by the Interaction Design Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for understanding relationships between items in a collection and for exploring an information space (e.g., a set of documents or webpages). The RB has been through a number of major design revisions. At JCDL 2007, we reported on two studies of information seeking that we conducted using the RB++ version of the Relation Browser software. Based on the results of those studies, we developed a set of design changes and implemented these in a new version called RB07. We will demonstrate the new RB07 interface and describe the rationale for our design changes.

REFERENCES

• 1: Robert Capra , Gary Marchionini , Jung Sun Oh , Fred Stutzman , Yan Zhang, Effects of structure and interaction style on distinct search tasks, Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, June 18-23, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada [doi>10.1145/1255175.1255267]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.m Miscellaneous

General Terms:
Human Factors

Keywords:
dynamic interfaces, exploratory search, faceted browsing