Ideas

Thu May 15 17:06:11 CEST 2008

Table of contents

1 Sketches

1.1 Map Presentation Templates

Map footbal career template

The idea is to introduce map presentation templates that define modalities for presentation of particular data sets. Each Template would be defined with:

• Properties that are selected for visualization (i.e. club, representation, dates, won trophies...)
• Criteria for selection of properties to be shown (i.e. just if played in that game, or date 10 years, or at least European level...)
• Icons and modalities (shape, color, text...) to be used to present each property or group of properties
• Modalites for showing relations among properties (such as club and trophy...)

Map footbal career template: Zidane

Sketch Zidane

Sketch G8

Sketch interface

1.2 NBasic shapes

Lynda's sketch

1.3 New facet interaction controls

Idea: New type of facet controls: Semantic Map Interaction controls

The idea is to have a facet that, in addition to query restriction behaviour, also:

• Has an associated icon, so it can serve as a legend for items on the map
• Have few other map presentation specific items, such as center the map presentation to particular facet, or zoom in (see the image under)
• These controls should be implemented to work within results retreived from facets, i.e. they should make navigation through result set easier.
• The other possibility is to associate one icon with each facet, i.e. facet is presented on the map with perticular icon/color/form. Text within icon can be used to group icons belonging to a particular region.

1.4 Drop-A-Marker Relational Search

Idea: Drop-A-Marker Relation Search

The basic idea is to use markers on the map to state the queries on data.

1. User would chose the marker from a palette. Each marker would represent one property.
2. User would then drop a marker to or close to a place on the map which he wants to query. We could use grid alignment based on semantic data, so that user dose not have to do pixel level positioning. The basic idea is to combine markers so that we get queires such as give me all the artists that where born in ther region of Paris, who lived in Netherlands, and whose work is exhibited in United States.
3. Users would state the relations between the markers, i.e. if the markers expand the quoeries (OR operator), or restrict it (AND operator).
4. User could than fine tune the search around each marker in terms of what level to query (city, region, country), distance, or what else is possible..
5. Maybe the way between two places could be stated and the points along the way use to expand/restrict the query.

Idea: Drop-A-Marker Relation Search: Motivation

Limitations of existing solutions:

1. Existing solutions provide hierarchical zoom in/out over one dimensions, or multidimensional search over single level of hierarchy
2. We have to cover situations where in the same quoery we can have different levels of hierarchy and different properties.

Sketch: Drop-a-Marker

Expand search would also merge the icons in the same region...

Sketch: Drop-a-Marker 2

Expand search would also merge the icons in the same region...

Sketch: Drop-a-Marker 3

Also using distance from a point as a form of tuning the query...

Idea: Drop-A-Marker Relation Search: Role of semantics

Semantic can play the role in several cases:

1. Grid alignment...
2. Expanding/reducing the search (e.g. search in region instead of the city...)
3. Finding related and close relation