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9 April 1997 Utilizing visualization for shared knowledge spaces
John F. Mareda, Edward L. Marek Jr., Steven A. Smith
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Proceedings Volume 3017, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis IV; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.270313
Event: Electronic Imaging '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States
Abstract
The amount and variety of data on the Web continues to grow exponentially, greatly complicating the process of finding relevant information, and making it increasingly difficult to understand information in the context of related material. Advanced visualization techniques, as long as they are compatible and effective ion the context of the widely distributed nature of data on the Web, can provide some measure of order to this chaos. Despite the proliferation of automated tools which attempt to deal with this sea of data, there is still a pressing need for human involvement in the organization and representation of information. People 'living' on the Web tend to form little 'knowledge spaces', revolving around those subjects that they are interested in. We describe several research efforts currently underway which address the problem of organizing and finding information in Cyberspace. We conclude with 'CiteMaps', a technology we are developing which combines Web-relevant visualization techniques with concepts and tools, to allow 'real people' to develop shareable clusters of related information.
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John F. Mareda, Edward L. Marek Jr., and Steven A. Smith "Utilizing visualization for shared knowledge spaces", Proc. SPIE 3017, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis IV, (9 April 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.270313
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KEYWORDS
Visualization

Information visualization

Java

Data processing

Internet

3D modeling

Human-machine interfaces

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