The Lab involves participants from psychology, library and information services, computer science, and systems research as well as collaborators from various businesses and government agencies. During the morning and early afternoon, current HCIL research on visual interfaces for presenting and using effectively massive amounts of information were given. Demonstrations completed the day. Interfaces need to become comprehensible, predictable, and controllable. Topics that particularly caught my attention included ways to improve information seeking and browsing, refinement of information visualization, and specification and evaluation of interfaces.
Graphical presentations help one see patterns.
Prune the display through iterative selection criteria specified by the user. Show the user details on demand. Be able to move back and forth among views in real time as the analysis leads. The display starts with a map of all houses for sale. As one enters restrictions, e.g. , location, size, limit on lenth of commute, and cost, only those houses meeting the selection criteria continue to display.