We review recent visualization techniques aimed at supporting tasks that require the
analysis of text documents, from approaches targeted at visually summarizing the relevant …

Aesthetic principle not only concerns the perception of visual beauty, but most crucially, the
cognitive-affective responses derived from experiencing such stimuli. Despite this …

Whenever users engage in gathering and organizing new information, searching and
browsing activities emerge at the core of the exploration process. As the process unfolds …

This monograph is directed at researchers and developers who are designing the next
generation of web search user interfaces, by focusing on the techniques and visualizations …

Internet users are very familiar with the results of a search query displayed as a ranked list of
snippets. Each textual snippet shows a content summary of the referred document (or …

Methods and systems related to the display of primary and secondary search results are
provided. Search results are displayed to the user without requiring the user to perform any …

Complex cognitive activities, such as analytical reasoning, problem solving, and sense
making, are often performed through the mediation of interactive computational tools …

Today'software systems have to cope with changing environments while at the same time
facing high non-functional requirements such as flexibility and dependability. Recently …

We present visual re-ranking, an interactive visualization technique for multi-aspect
information retrieval. In multi-aspect search, the information need of the user consists of …

Finding relevant publications is a common task. Typically, a researcher browses through a
list of publications and traces additional relevant publications. When relevant publications …