Facilitating Browsing with Information Visualization: A Cognitive Fit Perspective

摘要

Search engines make vast amounts of information available to Internet users. Some of these engines have incorporated information visualization techniques to facilitate browsing through these results by reducing information overload. Drawing on information foraging theory, we study the effects of augmenting visualizations with animation to help users more easily identify relevant information in search engine results. In addition, we use cognitive fit theory to study the effect of different information formats on users 'performance in completing two different browsing tasks.