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Facet lens: local exploration and discovery in globally faceted data sets

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The process of design and construction in the field of automotive engineering produces lots of digital documents like images, text documents, calculation sheets, videos or 3Dmodels. Their amount, size and file type diversity increase rapidly since project team structures are getting more and more interdivisional. To regain an overview of the available items and their characteristics, the utilization of a faceted browser (or faceted search) is a comfortable approach. Its textual property selectionis already state of the art and leads to a reduced result set. But its deficiency is located in the global, overall affection of the search field. By introducing Facet Lens, we combine the benefits of the classical facet based search by topological context on a multi-touch device. The designer is able to screen the visual results for specific properties by moving the lens above the surface. Therefore, only regional subsets can be taken into account and the area is discovered along a user defined path individually. We argue that this is more intuitive and meets the creative and cooperative way to work in an interdisciplinary team much more than strict, textual filtering on all available items.

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  • (2014)Semantically faceted navigation with topic piesProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems10.1145/2660517.2660522(132-139)Online publication date: 4-Sep-2014

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Mariana Damova

This paper contributes to the research on human-device interaction. It describes an experimental method of faceted search based on using contextual information from a multi-touch device. The proposed method combines a classical facet-based search with screening the visual effects by moving the lens above the surface of the multi-touch device. This method allows only regional subsets to be considered, so the area on the device is uncovered along a user-defined path. The authors conduct a use case in the automotive industry, where designs are produced collaboratively. They implement the method in an intuitive user interface-the FacetLens widget, which can be used alone or as an add-on to other globally identified facets. The authors claim that the proposed approach allows for efficient collaboration in design work where facets produced by different users can be combined. Though a well-written paper, the work remains at a very experimental stage and its impact is unclear. That being said, this paper is good reading for scientists and engineers interested in human-device interaction and collaborative work environments. Online Computing Reviews Service

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DESIRE '11: Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design
October 2011
358 pages
ISBN:9781450307543
DOI:10.1145/2079216
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  1. automotive design process
  2. cooperative work
  3. discovery
  4. exploration
  5. interdisciplinary work
  6. local facet browsing

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DESIRE '11: Creativity and Innovation in Design
October 19 - 21, 2011
Eindhoven, Netherlands

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  • (2017)Interactive Lenses for VisualizationComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/cgf.1287136:6(173-200)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2017
  • (2014)Semantically faceted navigation with topic piesProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems10.1145/2660517.2660522(132-139)Online publication date: 4-Sep-2014

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