Adam / list,
we also considered lenses to be a powerful yet intuitive interaction
methaphor, leading to the creation of SemLens. SemLens is, of course,
not the first approach that applies this metaphor to the Semantic Web -
other popular examples include Fresnel or Haystack. But we think we
found a very generic and intuitive solution with SemLens. The "Semantic
Lenses" in SemLens are based on the Magic Lens idea (that you mentioned,
Adam) and apply it to the Semantic Web. In contrast to other approaches,
the lenses are binary, i.e. an object either meets the filter criterion
or not, indicated by a change of its color in the scatter plot
visualization. This allows for an easy and explorative construction of
Boolean expressions on semantic data, simply by combining lenses and
setting the logical operators accordingly.
We are currently writing a paper on this approach that will explain it
in more detail. We also motivate and contrast it with faceted browsing,
since - as you mentioned - the lenses are a nice alternative to static
lists and global check boxes; as are the scatter plots. We will link
this paper on the SemLens website as soon as it is published. For now,
we can only invite everyone to try out the live demo at
http://semlens.visualdataweb.org and experience the ease of interaction.
Cheers,
Steffen
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On 13.05.2011 12:01, adasal wrote:
List, I asked if SemLens and tFacet will be available on google code.
Philip replied "tFacet will be on google code in the next weeks.
SemLens is not sure yet."
Philip thanks, I thought maybe to share with list.
Funnily enough it is SemLens that attracts me.
I have always thought that a lens is a very powerful and under used
visual metaphor. (Because a lens implies the passage of something
through it. I think used most powerfully when capturing movement or
transition.)
My thinking is to use something like SemLens to browse faceted results
where I understand faceted results to be objects returned with
properties or types enumerated. This seems more intuitive than check
box selectors, and leads to discovery in a way that check boxes do
not. Anyway it would be a beginning use, but this would not capture
movement as I suggest though. Perhaps that depends on the collection
of properties?
It reminds me of the work at http://cpntools.org/
discussed in many papers including this [1] .
The work on Toolglass and Magic Lens by Xerox Parc [2] (Xerox
Corporation own the trade marks for these names.)
I think there is also the work on e.g. Piccolo from University of
Maryland [3], which covers issues associated with lenses.
Adam
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[1]:Redesigning Design/CPN: Integrating Interaction and Petri Nets In Use
[2]:http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/MagicLenses/93Siggraph.html
[3]:http://www.piccolo2d.org/
On 13 May 2011 08:50, Philipp Heim <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
tFacet will be on google code in the next weeks.
SemLens is not sure yet.
Regards
Philipp
Am 12.05.2011 23:52, schrieb adasal:
Hi,
tFacet and SemLens are not on google code. Are they planned to be?
Best,
Adam Saltiel
On 11 May 2011 10:43, Philipp Heim
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all,
we are happy to announce the release of tFacet, a new tool
that applies known interaction concepts to allow
hierarchical-faceted exploration of RDF data.
More information can be found on:
http://tfacet.visualdataweb.org
Best
Sören & Philipp
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