Information Searching Using Visualizations

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See It, Find It

• Information Searching Using Visualizations
• Darlene Fichter Jeff Wisniewski
• Data Librarian Web Services Librarian U of
  Saskatchewan U of Pittsburgh

October 22, 2009
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The web is grand. Too bad theres so much of it.
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The web is grant. Too bad theres so much of it.
A search for dog returns 44 million results.
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Libraries are also grandtoo bad they have so
much stuff
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Forecast cloudy
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Would the real Bond please step forward?

• (James) bond
• Stocks and bonds
• Baseball
• Family ties

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How about pulling out concepts?
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How about pulling out visualizing concepts?
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How about visual feedback as you limit?
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I know it when I see it.

• Who doesnt recognize a book by its cover?
• Find more like this?
• Searching for images using images

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BYO Image
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Select site to search and enter keywords into
oSkope
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Oskope results in list view mode.
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Oskope results in grid view mode.
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Oskope results in pile view mode.
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Pile and grid would rule for search history.

• Recognition vs. recall
• Want icing on your cake?
• Pile in reverse chronological order
• Pile by term in reverse order
• Pile by day / date

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Lists are great but graphs can be better.
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Oskope results in graph mode.
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Spectra visual newsreader
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What about the other visual search engines?
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Quintura offers concept map and lists in a dual
view.
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Quintura has an image search.
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Would kids like this?
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Or this?
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Look familiar?
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Now I know where Ive seen you!
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Using visual search to find visuals.
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When words are hard to come by TinEye Piximilar
http//ideeinc.com/products/tineye/demo-screencast
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Youre so vain, you probably think this search
engine is about you.
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Find me something like this.

• Demo
• http//www.tiltomo.com

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Photosynth
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3D Results and Immersive Results

• Ubrowser

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Visual on the go oMoby
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Visual search gobbles up more resources.

• Bandwidth
• Screen sometimes bigger is better
• Play nice with others
• Graphics hardware
• Accessibility

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Resources

• AquaBrowser http//www.aquabrowser.com
• BYO Image http//labs.ideeinc.com/upload/
• Colr pickr http//krazydad.com/colrpickr/
• Encore http//www.iii.com/products/encore.shtml
• Grokker http//www.grokker.com
• iTunes http//www.apple.com/itunes/
• oMoby http//www.omoby.com
• uBrowser http//ubrowser.en.softonic.com/

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Resources

• oSkope http//www.oskope.com/
• Tiltomo http//www.tiltomo.com
• TinEye http//www.tineye.com/
• Photosynth http//photosynth.net/
• Quintara http//www.quintura.com/
• SearchMe http//www.searchme.com/
• Spectra newsreader http//msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msn
  bc/components/spectra/index.html
• uBrowser http//ubrowser.en.softonic.com/

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More questions or comments?

• Jeff Wisniewski
• jeffw_at_pitt.edu
• Darlene Fichter
• Darlene.Fichter_at_usask.ca