@article{33ccc92756ec40c0a6594e395bb5cd1e,
title = "Multidimensional scaling for group memory visualization",
abstract = "We describe an attempt to overcome information overload through information visualization - in a particular domain, group memory. A brief review of information visualization is followed by a brief description of our methodology. We discuss our system, which uses multidimensional scaling (MDS) to visualize relationships between documents, and which we tested on 60 subjects, mostly students. We found three important (and statistically significant) differences between task performance on an MDS-generated display and on a randomly generated display. With some qualifications, we conclude that MDS speeds up and improves the quality of manual classification of documents and that the MDS display agrees with subject perceptions of which documents are similar and should be displayed together.",
author = "McQuaid, {Michael J.} and Ong, {Thian Huat} and Hsinchun Chen and Nunamaker, {Jay F.}",
note = "Funding Information: Michael J. McQuaid is a fourth year doctoral student in MIS at the University of Arizona, where he is a member of both the Artificial Intelligence Group and the Center for the Management of Information. His research interests include visualization and collaboration. He holds an MS in Operations Management and an MBA in Quantitative Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BFA from the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University.Thian-Huat Ong is a third year doctoral student in MIS at the University of Arizona, where he is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Group. His research interests include neural networks, visualization, and multilingual information retrieval. He has received a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MS in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Hsinchun Chen is McClelland Professor of MIS and Andersen Professor of MIS at the University of Arizona, where he directs the UA/MIS Artificial Intelligence Group. Professor Chen is a Visiting Senior Research Scientist at NCSA. His articles have appeared in Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, IEEE Expert and many other publications. He has won numerous awards including Research Initiation (NSF), Best Paper (HICSS 1992), and an AT&T Foundation Award in Science and Engineering in 1994 and 1995. Professor Chen is a PI of the Illinois Digital Library Initiative project, and has received grant awards from the NSF, DARPA, NASA, NIH, NCSA, and NIJ. He is guest editor for special issues of IEEE Computer and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science.Jay F. Nunamaker is Regents Professor of MIS, Computer Science, and Communications and Soldwedel Professor of MIS at the University of Arizona, where he founded the MIS Department, and founded and directs the Center for the Management of Information. His articles have appeared in Management Science, Communications of the ACM, MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Academy of Management, and many other publications. He has won many awards including Educator of the Year (DPMA), Professor of the Year (Andersen Consulting), PC Magazine Editor's Choice (for GroupSystems Software), and many best paper awards. He has edited many journals and currently serves on the editorial boards of six journals. Funding Information: Dr. Richard Orwig helped formulate experimental design. Dorbin Ng provided the output of his prior research (co-occurrence analysis and automatic indexing). Duffy Gillman contributed to the interface design. Numerous volunteers generously gave their time to perform the experiment. This project is sponsored in part by NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative, IRI-9411318, 1994–1998 (B. Schatz, H. Chen, et al., “Building the Interspace: Digital Library Infrastructure for a University Engineering Community”). ",
year = "1999",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1016/S0167-9236(99)00042-1",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "27",
pages = "163--176",
journal = "Decision Support Systems",
issn = "0167-9236",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "1",
}