Visually Linking web search results with bookmarked information

Information

• Publication Type: Bachelor Thesis
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
  • Visual Information Foraging on the Desktop
• Date: October 2018
• Date (Start): June 2017
• Date (End): October 2018
• Matrikelnummer: 1027088
• First Supervisor: Manuela Waldner

Abstract

This work presents a new approach of regaining access to stored information and for the visualization of similarities between new information and locally stored data. The fact that bookmarks are cumbersome to use and that there is no possibility to compare web search results with local information motivates the concept of this thesis. The implementation was done as Google Chrome extension and based on the ’Information Collage’ environment. In order to improve the perceived ease of use, the visualization was integrated in the search engine results page to avoid a context switch for the user. The visualization uses a word cloud to display similarities and differences between remote and local information. The word cloud layout focuses on the spatial arrangment and the text colour of the words to encode their association to the remote or the local information.

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BibTeX

@bachelorsthesis{edlinger-2018-vwr,
  title =      "Visually Linking web search results with bookmarked
               information",
  author =     "Georg Edlinger",
  year =       "2018",
  abstract =   "This work presents a new approach of regaining access to
               stored information and for the visualization of similarities
               between new information and locally stored data. The fact
               that bookmarks are cumbersome to use and that there is no
               possibility to compare web search results with local
               information motivates the concept of this thesis. The
               implementation was done as Google Chrome extension and based
               on the ’Information Collage’ environment. In order to
               improve the perceived ease of use, the visualization was
               integrated in the search engine results page to avoid a
               context switch for the user. The visualization uses a word
               cloud to display similarities and differences between remote
               and local information. The word cloud layout focuses on the
               spatial arrangment and the text colour of the words to
               encode their association to the remote or the local
               information.",
  month =      oct,
  address =    "Favoritenstrasse 9-11/E193-02, A-1040 Vienna, Austria",
  school =     "Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna
               University of Technology ",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2018/edlinger-2018-vwr/",
}