Film Finder
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Short description
The Film Finder is a Software that supports users to search for certain films with different types of visualisation. It includes 1838 film titles, 5468 actors and 1463 directors. This typical dynamic queries system presents films in a starfield (interactive scatterplot) with the year of production and the popularity of the films as axes. Users perform queries by manipulating query devices such as rangesliders, alphasliders, and toggles. [Ahlberg and Truvé, 1995]
Suitable Datatypes
- title
- actor/actress
- director
- length
- year
- popularity
Example and use cases
Films are presented in a starfield with the year of production and the
popularity of the films as axes. Users perform queries, for example by searching for films with Anthony Perkins and Ingrid Bergman between 59 and 276 minutes length.
An own screen will give invformation about certain film in the finding. The genre of the film is visualized with different colours.
Film Finder starfield example
[Ahlberg and Truvé, 1995]