information spaces
from: S.K. Chang and M.F. Costabile -- Visual Interfaces to Multimedia Databases
The Handbook of Multimedia Information Management
multimedia information systems
special requirements
query mechanisms
(multiparadigmatic) visual interface
information space
In a visual interface for multimedia databases, the information stored in the database needs to be visualized in an information space.
information spaces
information spaces
The logical information space is a multidimensional space where each point represents an object from the database.
unified view of the database
both examples and queries are clues
the information retrieval problem
to construct the most desirable query with respect to the examples and clues presented by the user.
is the one that will retrieve the largest number of relevant database objects and whose size in the information space is relatively small
visual reasoning may help the user ...
information hyperspace
the logical information space may further be structured in a logical information hyperspace, where the clues become hyperlinks that provide directional information, and the information space can be navigated by the user following directional clues.
information is chunked, and each chunk is illustrated or made accessible by an example (hypernode) ...
one step further
let's present information in a virtual reality information space (3D)
draft version 1 (16/5/2003)