Information Presentation

Abstract

This chapter focuses on how to present the results of the search. It is specific to information retrieval and search results rather than being a general discussion on information visualization or presentation. The various scenarios of information presentation are defined along with aspects of their presentation. Visualization of search results is organized by linear lists, clustering views, network views and time line presentation. Collaborative filtering is discussed as an alternative mechanism for helping a user navigate to potentially useful information not found in a hit list. When displaying an individual item highlighting and other technologies can help focus a user’s attention on the sections of an item most likely to be relevant to their information need. Displays associated with multimedia information retrieval have parallelisms with textual display but have their set of unique characteristics.