Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries

by Chaomei Chen (editor)

Visual Interfaces to Digital Motivation, Utilization, and Socio-technical Challenges.- Visual Interfaces to Digital Motivation, Utilization, and Socio-technical Challenges.- Visual Interfaces to Documents,Document Parts, Document Variants,and Document Usage Data.- Spatial Hypertext as a Reader Tool in Digital Libraries.- Accessing Libraries as Easy as a Game.- Interactive Timeline Viewer (ItLv): A Tool to Visualize Variants among Documents.- An Empirical Evaluation of the Interactive Visualization of Metadata to Support Document Use.- Visual Analysis of Website Browsing Patterns.- Visual Interfaces to Image and Video Documents.- Extreme Temporal Photo Browsing.- Accessing News Video Libraries through Dynamic Information Extraction, Summarization, and Visualization.- Handwritten Notes as a Visual Interface to Index, Edit and Publish Audio/Video Highlights.- Visualization of Knowledge Domains.- Term Co-occurrence Analysis as an Interface for Digital Libraries.- Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, and Cognitive Domain Visualizations.- Cartographic Interfaces to Digital Libraries.- On Geometry and Transformation in Map-Like Information Visualization.- A Visual Interface for Geographic Digital Libraries.- Interactive Information Visualization in the Digital Flora of Texas.- Visual Explorations for the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype.- Towards a General Framework.- A Lightweight Protocol between Digital Libraries and Visualization Systems.- Top Ten Problems in Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries.

244 pages, Paperback

Published October 5, 2014

About the author

Dr. Chaomei Chen is a Professor of Informatics in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. He is a Chang Jiang Scholar at Dalian University of Technology, China since 2008 and was a visiting professor at Brunel University in the United Kingdom (2002-2008). He received his bachelor degree in mathematics from Nankai University, China, a master degree in computation from the University of Oxford in England and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Liverpool, England. His research interests include information visualization, visual analytics, knowledge domain visualization, mapping scientific frontiers, and theories of scientific discoveries and creativity.

His work has been cited over 7,950 times on Google Scholar. He is the principal investigator of research grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other government agencies and industrial sponsors such as Pfizer and IMS Health. His earlier research was funded by the European Commission, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), and the Library and Information Commission (UK). Dr. Chen created the widely used software CiteSpace for visualizing and analyzing emerging trends in scientific literature. CiteSpace has been used by users worldwide.

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