(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013)
Choo, Jaegul; Lee, Changhyun; Clarkson, Edward; Liu, Zhicheng; Lee, Hanseung; Chau, Duen Horng; Li, Fuxin; Kannan, Ramakrishnan; Stolper, Charles D.; Inouye, David; Mehta, Nishant; Ouyang, Hua; Som, Subhojit; Gray, Alexander; Stasko, John T.; Park, Haesun
We present a visual analytics system called VisIRR, which is an interactive visual information retrieval and recommendation system for document discovery. VisIRR effectively combines both paradigms of passive pull through a query processes for
retrieval and active push that recommends the items of potential interest based on the user preferences. Equipped with efficient
dynamic query interfaces for a large corpus of document data, VisIRR visualizes the retrieved documents in a scatter plot form with their overall topic clusters. At the same time, based on interactive personalized preference feedback on documents, VisIRR provides recommended documents reaching out to the entire corpus beyond the retrieved sets. Such recommended documents are
represented in the same scatter space of the retrieved documents so that users can perform integrated analyses of both retrieved
and recommended documents seamlessly. We describe the state-of-the-art computational methods that make these integrated and
informative representations as well as real time interaction possible. We illustrate the way the system works by using detailed usage
scenarios. In addition, we present a preliminary user study that evaluates the effectiveness of the system.