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This paper describes aminimally immersive three-dimensional volumetric interactive information visualization system for management and analysis of document corpora. The system, SFA, uses glyph-based volume rendering, enabling more complex data relationships and information attributes to be visualized than traditional 2D and surface-based visualization systems. Two-handed interaction using three-space magnetic trackers and stereoscopic viewing are combined to produce aminimally immersive interactive system that enhances the user’s three-dimensional perception of the information space. This new system capitalizes on the human visual system’s pre-attentive learning capabilities to quickly analyze the displayed information. SFA is integrated with adocument management and information retrieval engine named Telltale. Together, these systems integrate visualization and document analysis technologies to solve the problem of analyzing large document corpora. We describe the usefulness of this system for the analysis and visualization of document similarity within acorpus of textual documents, and present an example exploring authorship of ancient Biblical texts.
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Received: 15 December 1997 / Revised: June 1999
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Shaw, C.D., Kukla, J.M., Soboroff, I. et al. Interactive volumetric information visualization for document corpus management. Int J Digit Libr 2, 144–156 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007990050043
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s007990050043