Running diploma thesis: Visualization of XML search interaction

Supervisor(s)

• M.Sc. Saadia Malik
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Fuhr

Student

• Stefan Beckers

Related projects

INEX

Initiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval

Formalia

Preconditions

• Good programming abilities in java(Compulsary)
• Familiarity with XML

Task description

Visualization has been used very successfully in helping people understand various kinds of phenomena. Hence it is a natural choice for understanding the behavior of users. This work is aimed to develop a tool to visualize the searcher's interaction with an XML retrieval system to investigate its search patterns. For this purpose, a new parametric information visualization technique is to be developed that presents the searcher's interaction using visual attributes in 2D.

1. Development of abstract description of the visualization technique
2. Implementation a prototype version of the visualization technique
3. Implementation of conversion utilities for log file formats
4. Investigation of patterns

Literature

Pitkow and Krishna K. Bharat. Webviz:

A tool for world-wide web access log analysis. In First International WWW Conference, 1994.

George Din, Justyna Zander and Stephan Pietsch

:Test Execution Logging and Visualisation Techniques, 17th International Conference Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications - ICSSEA 2004, Paris, November 30 & December 1-2, 2004