SageBook: Searching Data-Graphics by Content

Currently, there are many hypertext-like tools and database retrieval systems that use keyword search as a means of navigation. While useful for certain tasks, keyword search is insufficient for browsing databases of data-graphics. SageBook is a system that searches among existing datagraphics, so that they can be reused with new data. In order to fulfill the needs of retrieval and reuse, it provides: 1) a direct manipulation, graphical query interface; 2) a content description language that can express important relationships for retrieving data-graphics; 3) automatic description of stored data-graphics based on their content; 4) search techniques sensitive to the structure and similarity among data-graphics; 5) manual and automatic adaptation tools for altering data-graphics so that they can be reused with new data.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1995
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Mei C. Chuah, Steven F. Roth, John Kolojejchick, Joe Mattis, Octavio Juarez
• Keywords: CHI 1995, Database Retrieval Systems, Graphical Query Interface, Human Computer Interaction, Keyword Search