Work in Progress: Visualizing a Semantic Search in a Room-Based Knowledge Space

Abstract

A semantic network acts as an expedient foundation to search for objects in a cooperative room-based knowledge space. But to make the search results useable and give users an intuitive instrument the search interface has to stick to several principles of usability and the search results have to be visualized in an appropriate way. The paper proposed is dealing with the problems related to the visualization of semantic networks and provides a concept for this field of research. This concept includes the analysis of different navigation designs as well as a comparison of different alternative presentations of search results.