@article{gui2013a,
author = {Gui, Zhipeng and Yang, Chaowei and Xia, Jizhe and Li, Jing and Rezgui, Abdelmounaam and Sun, Min and Xu, Yan and Fay, Dan},
title = {A visualization-enhanced graphical user interface for geospatial resource discovery},
year = {2013},
month = {April},
abstract = {Information visualization and user interaction play critical roles in geospatial resource discovery processes. Well-designed graphical user interfaces improve user experience and also help convey important information to assist decision-making. Existing approaches have visualization problems that impact the efficiency of geospatial resource discovery including (1) search portals lack intuitive and diverse information visualization methods to present search results; (2) functions to sort, filter, explore and analyse search results are inadequate and inefficient and (3) value-added information to help users make selection is missing. To address these problems, we propose a visualization- and interaction-enhanced discovery workflow. We use the latest Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies from Microsoft to implement the proposed methods for our search portal — GeoSearch. Specifically, (1) based on the Pivot Viewer, a multiple sorting, filtering and multi-level-zoom-enabled histogram clustering function is implemented to assist in records exploration. (2) A Bing Maps Viewer is built upon the Bing Maps Control to show geo-location (e.g. BoundingBox and server location) of resources and conduct map-based interactions. (3) Multiple data visualization tools are integrated to provide data preview and animation functions. (4) A service quality vieweris developed to help users select resources based on non-functional properties. Results show that the proposed visualization and interaction technologies improve user experience and can help users obtain required geospatial resources effectively and efficiently.},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/a-visualization-enhanced-graphical-user-interface-for-geospatial-resource-discovery/},
pages = {1-13},
journal = {Annals of GIS},
}