Development of a Tool for Information Visualization Using Hierarchical Structure on the WWW


The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 380-393, Feb. 1998
10.3745/KIPSTE.1998.5.2.380,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Hypertext-based documents are linked together on the World Wide Web(WWW). When navigating thru large documents, hypertext readers must remember their location in the space, make decisions on where to go next, and keep track of the pages previously visited. This can cause problems such as evidence of disorientation in a task of hypertext-based search. Therefore, it is needed to visualize the information on the WWW such that the problem of information visualization is to represent the quantity and distribution of information within a set of linked documents. This visualized information along with the type of document i.e., text, image, audio, etc., can be helpful when deciding whether a web site may be desired, without spending a great deal of time to browse the deep and complex structure of the site. In this paper, we develop a tool for web information visualization, namely Web Information Viewer(WIV), using a hierarchical structure to solve the problems mentioned above. It consists of four strategies:biding, clustering, and hierarchization to show the effectiveness. In addition, the design provides hardware-independency of all browsers that can support Java.


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[IEEE Style]
R. W. Bin and H. Shin, "Development of a Tool for Information Visualization Using Hierarchical Structure on the WWW," The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 380-393, 1998. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTE.1998.5.2.380.

[ACM Style]
Rho Won Bin and Heu Shin. 1998. Development of a Tool for Information Visualization Using Hierarchical Structure on the WWW. The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), 5, 2, (1998), 380-393. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTE.1998.5.2.380.