PaperVis: Literature Review Made Easy

被引:28
作者
Chou, J. -K. [1 ]
Yang, C. -K. [1 ]
机构
[1] Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Informat Management, Taipei, Taiwan
关键词
Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); I.3.3 [Computer Graphics; Methodology and Techniques-Graphics data structures and data types; Picture/Image Generation-Line and curve generation I.3.6 [Computer Graphics;
D O I
10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01921.x
中图分类号
TP31 [计算机软件];
学科分类号
081202 ; 0835 ;
摘要
Reviewing literatures for a certain research field is always important for academics. One could use Google-like information seeking tools, but oftentimes he/she would end up obtaining too many possibly related papers, as well as the papers in the associated citation network. During such a process, a user may easily get lost after following a few links for searching or cross-referencing. It is also difficult for the user to identify relevant/important papers from the resulting huge collection of papers. Our work, called PaperVis, endeavors to provide a user-friendly interface to help users quickly grasp the intrinsic complex citation-reference structures among a specific group of papers. We modify the existing Radial Space Filling (RSF) and Bullseye View techniques to arrange involved papers as a node-link graph that better depicts the relationships among them while saving the screen space at the same time. PaperVis applies visual cues to present node attributes and their transitions among interactions, and it categorizes papers into semantically meaningful hierarchies to facilitate ensuing literature exploration. We conduct experiments on the InfoVis 2004 Contest Dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness of PaperVis.
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页码:721 / 730
页数:10
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