Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Autofocus (01 Sep 2004) In its widest sense Guided Exploration means that the system proposes you views, elements or procedures that help (guide) you in the search. In this particular case it means that Autofocus finds a series of words statistically related with the ones we are looking for and offers them as suggestions. If we choose one of them it performs a new search including this word and in the graphic you can find the new documents that fit the query along with their relationship with the others already present. The objective of all this is to help us refine the search. The results are presented both in textual form, as classical hyperlinks that lead us to the “clicked” files, and in graphical form using an interactive cluster map that unfolds elegantly showing the results of the query within ovals that enclose other smaller circles. Article URL: http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=151&lang=2 Read 159 more articles from InfoVis sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Dynamic Elements - cloak and dagger web design     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy