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Usability of Visual Information Retrieval Metaphors for Object-Oriented Databases

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: OTM 2004 Workshops (OTM 2004)

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We present visual metaphors of Mavigator, a visual information retrieval system for Web-oriented database applications. The metaphors allow the naive users (computer non-professionals) to retrieve information from object-oriented databases in an easy and intuitive form. Novel features of Mavigator include coherent combination of a few paradigms: intentional navigation, extensional navigation, baskets for recording retrieval results and active extensions. The latter are programmed in a programming language thus allow a programmer to extend functionalities available to end users with no limitations. Due to the flexible architecture Mavigator is able to work not only with a proprietary object-oriented database but also with any information source. The objective of the corresponding PhD thesis is investigation into usability of different visual retrieval metaphors in realistic Web applications. In this paper we present some of the metaphors and discuss their potential for users.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Ordona 21, Warsaw, Poland

    Kazimierz Subieta

  2. Polish-Japanese Institute of IT, Koszykowa 86, Warsaw, Poland

    Mariusz Trzaska & Kazimierz Subieta

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  1. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), STARLab, Bldg G/10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

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  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, 3001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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  3. PrismTech, 4, Rue Angiboust, 91460, Marcoussis, France

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Trzaska, M., Subieta, K. (2004). Usability of Visual Information Retrieval Metaphors for Object-Oriented Databases. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Corsaro, A. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: OTM 2004 Workshops. OTM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3292. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30470-8_96

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