It's all over! Final Project Report available here!
The online presence of the research project Making Web Search Spatial by Liam J Sullivan, produced as a Final Year Project for BSc Computing at the University of Leeds supervised by Roy Ruddle of the Visualisation and Virtual Reality Research Group, School of Computing
The Problem
Search engines such as Google are brilliant at helping us find information, but are handicapped by the small quantity of results that are visible at a given time and presenting those results in list form. The goal of this project is to develop a spatial, map-like interface for web searching. The project will cover visual metaphors for website maps, how information should be encoded within such maps, and the creation of a proof of concept. That is likely to be for a particular website, rather than the Web as a whole.
Links
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New! A Visualisation driven by a corpus harvested from Wikipedia pages about Call of Duty!
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SpatialWebSearch.appspot.com - I've set up a basic Python server environment to start prototyping. I think Python will provide me the quickest development environment but my other potential set ups are a simpler JavaScript system or perhaps PHP.
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Documents, Plans, Sketches and eventually the Final Report will appear in this section later on perhaps.
Project Code Updates
Contact
Please find up to date contact details on the final page of my personal site
Research
Work I've located whilst researching the area
Early Prototype mapping contrived results with the Arbor JS Library