Table 1 Visual interactions to support analyst tasks by facet dimension.
From: HEALTH GeoJunction: place-time-concept browsing of health publications
Dimension | Task | Visual Interaction |
|---|---|---|
Time | Filter documents by time range | Size and drag date range slider widgets in timeline |
Time | Identify article count by month | Mouse-over time line bar chart |
Time | Filter documents by predefined time interval | Click corresponding interval button above timeline and then place time slider |
Concept | Filter documents by keyword from corpus | Click tagcloud keyword |
Concept | Filter documents by keyword in selected set | Click 'filtered' tagcloud keyword |
Concept | Compare frequency of keyword in corpus versus selected set | Click color assignment widget to classify keyword frequency change by color |
Concept | Highlight tag frequency above document count threshold | Dynamically highlight tags in tag cloud for full corpus or current selection using respective slider |
Concept | Retrieve documents by alternative tagging scheme | Select tag format for tag clouds from drop-down list |
Concept | Retrieve documents by low frequency tag | Select sort tag cloud by count from drop-down list, scroll and click tags |
Concept | Retrieve documents by specific keyword tags | Select sort tag cloud alphabetically from drop-down list, scroll and click tags |
Place | Select documents about a country | Click 'about' country graduated symbol |
Place | Select documents from a country | Click 'from' country graduated symbol |
Place | Select documents about a country or adjacent countries | Shift-click a country graduated symbol |
Place | Select documents by place within geographic hierarchy | Tab from map to geographic tree view and click place names |
Place | Retrieve summary of documents by country ('about' or 'from') and time range | Mouse-over country graduated symbol on map |
Place | Inspect geographic distribution of documents for query parameters | Map supports standard pan by dragging, map scale slider and buttons for pan by fixed interval |
Results | Preview document in result set | Mouse-over icon in result set table |
Results | View map representation of places referenced in document | Select globe icon in result set table |
Results | Retrieve similar documents | Click 'more-like-this' icon in result set table |
Results | Inspect retrieved document | Select row in result set table and then document details tab |
All | Remove place or tag constraint | Clear to remove facet-like stub for criterion |