1. GALAXIES/THEMESCAPES JAMES WISE, JAMES THOMAS, KELLY PENNOCK, DAVID LANTRIP, MARK POTTIER, ANNE SCHUR, VERN CROW -MAULIK SHUKLA

2. MOTIVATION AVAILIBILITY OF TEXTUAL INFORMATION AVAILIBILITY OF TEXTUAL INFORMATION SPEED OF READING SPEED OF READING POWER OF VISUAL PERCEPTION POWER OF VISUAL PERCEPTION

3. VISUAL TRANSFORMATION - FROM TEXT TO PICTURE DATA BASE / CORPORA DATA BASE / CORPORA TEXT ENGINE TEXT ENGINE GUI GUI DISPLAY SOFTWARE DISPLAY SOFTWARE APPLOICATION PACKAGE APPLOICATION PACKAGE AUXILIARY TOOLS AUXILIARY TOOLS

4. MVAB PROJECT MULTIDIMENTIONAL VISUALISATION AND ADVANCE BROWSING PROJECT MULTIDIMENTIONAL VISUALISATION AND ADVANCE BROWSING PROJECT SPIRE: SPATIAL PARADIGM FOR INFORMATION RETRIVAL AND EXPLORATION SPIRE: SPATIAL PARADIGM FOR INFORMATION RETRIVAL AND EXPLORATION TWO MAJOR APPROACHES TWO MAJOR APPROACHES 1. GALAXIES 2. THEMESCAPES / THEME VIEWS

5. GALAXIES STARFIELDS AS DISPLAY METAPHORES STARFIELDS AS DISPLAY METAPHORES DOCUMENT AS A POINT – DOCUSTAR DOCUMENT AS A POINT – DOCUSTAR RELATIONSHIPS AS CLUSTERS RELATIONSHIPS AS CLUSTERS PROXIMITY INDICATES SIMILARITY PROXIMITY INDICATES SIMILARITY

6. THEME VIEW TOPOGRAPHICAL MAPS AS DISPLAY METAPHORE TOPOGRAPHICAL MAPS AS DISPLAY METAPHORE CREATED FROM GALAXIES CREATED FROM GALAXIES PEAK REPRESENTS INTENSITY OF THEME PEAK REPRESENTS INTENSITY OF THEME KEY FEATURES KEY FEATURES 1. HEIGHT 2. NUMBER OF PEAKS 3 SLOPE 4. LOCATION

7. TOOLS AND FEATURES COMMON TOOLS COMMON TOOLS - SELECTION - ZOOM - PAN - ROTATE

8. TOOL BAR

9. DOCUMENT VIEWER

10. QUERY TOOL VOCABULARY WORD QUERY - W VOCABULARY WORD QUERY - W EXACT PHRASE QUERY - P EXACT PHRASE QUERY - P QUERY BY EXAMPLE - E QUERY BY EXAMPLE - E

11. GROUP TOOL

12. TIME SLICER EVOLUTION OF DATABASE OVER TIME EVOLUTION OF DATABASE OVER TIME

13. CATEGORY TOOL DEFINE NEW CATAGORIES AS COLLECTION OF TERMS DEFINE NEW CATAGORIES AS COLLECTION OF TERMS USE OF WILDCARD CHARECTERS ( *’S) USE OF WILDCARD CHARECTERS ( *’S)

14. CORRELATION TOOL

17. FIELD MARKER TOOL

18. GISTING TOOL

19. WORKSHOP TOOL

20. PROBE TOOL

21. CONFINED THEME VIEW

22. DATABASE SUBSETTING

23. PREFERENCES

24. SELECTED TITLES / CONTRAST

25. RESEARCH DIRECTIONS HANDLING SPECIFIC ENTITY-ATRIBUTE RELATIONSHIP ( LINK ANALYSES ) HANDLING SPECIFIC ENTITY-ATRIBUTE RELATIONSHIP ( LINK ANALYSES ) CAPTURING DEVELOPMENT OF STORY OR THREAD OF CONCEPTS CAPTURING DEVELOPMENT OF STORY OR THREAD OF CONCEPTS ADDING SENSORY MODALITIES ( SOUND ) ADDING SENSORY MODALITIES ( SOUND )

26. HCI MATRICES LEARNING CURVE **** LEARNING CURVE **** EASE OF USE*** EASE OF USE*** ERROR RECOVERY**** ERROR RECOVERY**** USER SATISFACTION***** USER SATISFACTION***** RETANTION***** RETANTION*****

27. REFERENCE http://www.pnl.gov/infoviz/spire/spirehelp/index.html http://www.pnl.gov/infoviz/spire/spirehelp/index.html

28. QUESTIONS ????