[Sigia-l] Identification please

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bardsley [mailto:markb at luxworldwide.com] 
> Sent: 10 May 2007 17:21
> To: Jonathan Baker-Bates; sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Identification please
> 
> If you're interested is that kind of browsing you might want 
> to check out a site that quite some time ago used it to 
> organize (provide access
> to) large quantities of scientific data.
> 
> http://www.telemakus.net/
> 
> It might take you a while to figure out how to use it. You 
> need the Java runtime environment. Essentially you search for 
> something in one of the databases then click on "MapIt". 
> Fortunately you can find ample (though not intuitively 
> organized) information on the site about the research that 
> went into the project.
> 

Now that I have a few knowledgeable people on the thread - perhaps you
can also help me with a related question:

I once worked with a guy who told me that there had been some research
done into the use of hyperbolic browsers in which several different
types were tested, and the best one found in terms of speed of
information retrieval. They then tested that against conventional tree
and list browsing interfaces and found that users could retrieve
information faster with these than even proficient users of the
hyperbolic UI. 

Do you know of such research? 

Damn - I realise this sounds like a troll... It's not - I'm just
curious!

Jonathan



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