HomeFinder: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 00:36, 27 April 2006

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Short description

The dynamic Homfinder was created to search and visualize Databases. As the name implies, the first use case scenario was a home finding application, where the user was able to find real estates, by adjusting graphical widgets (sliders, ...).

Advantages using dynamic Homfinder

Continuous update of the query results
Fully visual interface (no query language needed)
Reversible operations
Immediate results
almost no training needed

Disadvantages using dynamic Homefinder

complex dynamic Queries need a lot of screen real estate
underlying data structures need to support rapid querying

Suitable Datatypes

data should be graphical representable
slider widgets rely on numeric data

Interaction

multiple slider interface
buttons
dynamic map display that displays house location
single view

Internal Links

http://infovis-wiki.net/index.php/Dynamic_query

References

[ACM, 1992] ACM, I ACM Press New York, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=133216&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=8530671&CFTOKEN=55015481

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 == Short description ==
-The dynamic Homfinder was created to search and visualize Databases. As the name implies the first use case scenario was a Home finding application, where the user was able to find real estates, by adjusting graphical widgets (sliders, ...).
+The dynamic Homfinder was created to search and visualize Databases. As the name implies, the first use case scenario was a home finding application, where the user was able to find real estates, by adjusting graphical widgets (sliders, ...).
 == Advantages using dynamic Homfinder ==