Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe G8 - Aufgabe 3

Topic

On-line Music Portals: Analyzing the Users' Activities

Area of Application

This section describes the application area of MISE - Music Investigation and Clustering Environment.

Analysis of Application Area

Web based, delivery of information, additionally selling related products. Mainstay of rewards: advertisement. Main information delivered: artists, music, genre, what is new, what are the tops, what are the flops.

General Description

The source of the data investigated are on-line music portals such as .... Those type of portals provide information for music lovers about their favorite music and genre. Moreover it provides the possibility to shop music and assets of products related to the music. Another mainstay of the rewards is advertisement. The success heavily depends on getting the consumer an easy entry and easy access to his or her preffered music. As a matter of fact this is not a-priori known, so the portal itsself has to provide good techniques to guied the visitor.

This gives plenty of source for invesigating the data from an existing portal to find out what may help future development and answer interesting questions of optimazation.

Special Issues

We identified the following spots of interest:

1. The interaction of the user is heavily related to the exisiting portal the user is visiting (from that point of view the data is very much affected)
2. The users do have very diversified usage, hence they do not all necessarily visit the page on a set purpose (maybe this develops during the visit, woudl be nice to find out on which occasion)
3. ...

Target Group

Identifying the Target

The target for the exploration tool are mainly shopping analysts and web developer. It is the aim to suit the needs of persone who run the on-line portal (since they are interested in optimization). On the other hand one must not forget about the technical aspects, abd by that help the developers of such systems. After all this groups should pass on their

Proposed Design

Visual Mapping

(Datadimension => Attribute)