HomeFinder

Updated: January 15, 2008; G. Waloszek

Figure: HomeFinder (left: Starfield display; right: AlphaSliders)

Purpose

HomeFinder demonstrates the usefulness of new controls that were developed at the University of Maryland: Starfield display and alpha/range sliders.

Applications

HomeFinder helps people finding a home that fit their personal needs.

Authors, Date

Ben Shneiderman (HCIL), Christopher Williamson (student at HCIL); 1992

Links, Papers

• HCIL (University of Maryland): www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil
• Williamson, Christopher, and Shneiderman, Ben (1992). The Dynamic HomeFinder: Evaluating dynamic queries in a real-estate information exploration system, Proc. ACM SIGIR'92 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 338-346.
• Ben Shneiderman (1999). Dynamic queries, starfield displays, and the path to Spotfire. (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/spotfire)