The advent of the Web has brought an unprecedented amount of
information together with a large, diverse set of users. Online users
are performing a wider variety of tasks than ever before. For example,
not only is the Web being used to search conventional databases like
Lexis/Nexus, it is also being used to broker Beanie Babies(R). Today's
common information seeking metaphors (i.e., keyword search and
hypertext) cannot be expected to support all these new tasks well. Our
research investigates new metaphors for online information seeking
tasks. We characterize a new user behavior called opportunistic
exploration and show how it is significantly different than both
browsing and searching. A novel visual metaphor for opportunistic
exploration, an aquarium, is presented. The aquarium allows users to
explore a large corpus at any level of granularity
%0 Journal Article
%1 2000-aquarium-bryan
%A Bryan, D.
%A Gershman, A.
%D 2000
%J Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. 11th International Workshop on
%K croala digitalHumanities
%P 601-607
%R 10.1109/DEXA.2000.875086
%T The aquarium: a novel user interface metaphor for large, online
stores
%U http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=875086&isnumber=18943
%X The advent of the Web has brought an unprecedented amount of
information together with a large, diverse set of users. Online users
are performing a wider variety of tasks than ever before. For example,
not only is the Web being used to search conventional databases like
Lexis/Nexus, it is also being used to broker Beanie Babies(R). Today's
common information seeking metaphors (i.e., keyword search and
hypertext) cannot be expected to support all these new tasks well. Our
research investigates new metaphors for online information seeking
tasks. We characterize a new user behavior called opportunistic
exploration and show how it is significantly different than both
browsing and searching. A novel visual metaphor for opportunistic
exploration, an aquarium, is presented. The aquarium allows users to
explore a large corpus at any level of granularity
@article{2000-aquarium-bryan,
abstract = {The advent of the Web has brought an unprecedented amount of
information together with a large, diverse set of users. Online users
are performing a wider variety of tasks than ever before. For example,
not only is the Web being used to search conventional databases like
Lexis/Nexus, it is also being used to broker Beanie Babies(R). Today's
common information seeking metaphors (i.e., keyword search and
hypertext) cannot be expected to support all these new tasks well. Our
research investigates new metaphors for online information seeking
tasks. We characterize a new user behavior called opportunistic
exploration and show how it is significantly different than both
browsing and searching. A novel visual metaphor for opportunistic
exploration, an aquarium, is presented. The aquarium allows users to
explore a large corpus at any level of granularity},
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author = {Bryan, D. and Gershman, A.},
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doi = {10.1109/DEXA.2000.875086},
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journal = {Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. 11th International Workshop on},
keywords = {croala digitalHumanities},
pages = {601-607},
timestamp = {2009-11-20T15:33:50.000+0100},
title = {The aquarium: a novel user interface metaphor for large, online
stores},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=875086&isnumber=18943},
year = 2000
}