Tschinkel Gerwald, Hasitschka Peter, Sabol Vedran, Hafner R
2016
Using Micro-Visualisations to Support Faceted Filtering of Recommender Results
Information Visualisation (IV), 2016 20th International Conference IEEE Lisbon, Portugal
Faceted search is a well known and broadly imple-
mented paradigm for filtering information with various
types of structured information. In this paper we introduce
a multiple-view faceted interface, consisting of one main
visualisation for exploring the data and multiple minia-
turised visualisations showing the filters. The Recommen-
dation Dashboard tool provides several interactive visual-
isations for analysing recommender results along various
faceted dimensions specific to cultural heritage and scien-
tific content. As our aim is to reduce the user load and opti-
mise the use of screen area, we permit only one main visu-
alisation to be visible at a time, and introduce the concept
of micro-visualisations – small, simplified views conveying
only the necessary information – to provide natural, easy
to understand representation of the the active filter set.