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Result Display

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

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Result display; Result overview; Preview; Data visualization

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After formulating and initiating a search in a database, users review the results. The complexity of this task varies greatly depending on the users’ needs, from selecting one or more top ranked items to conducting a complex analysis of the results in the hope of discovering an unknown phenomena. Displaying results includes providing and overview of the results and previews of items, manipulating visualizations, changing the sequencing of the results, adjusting the size of the results, clustering results by topic or attribute values, providing relevance feedback, examining individual items, and presenting explanatory messages such as restating the initial query.

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Displaying results is part of a dynamic and iterative decision-making process in which users initiate queries, review results and refine their queries. Users scan objects rapidly to determine whether to examine them more closely, or move...

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  1. Ahlberg C. and Shneiderman B. Visual information seeking: tight coupling of dynamic query filters with starfield displays. pp. 313–317.1994, In Proc. SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems,

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  2. Greene S., Marchionini G., Plaisant C., and Shneiderman B. Previews and overviews in digital libraries: designing surrogates to support visual Information-seeking, J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 51(3):380–393, 2000.

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  1. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Catherine Plaisant

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  1. Catherine Plaisant
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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Plaisant, C. (2009). Result Display. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_316

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