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Building Tools for Teaching Interactive Visualization Systems. Innovation in Education Award. University of Pittsburgh’s Provost’s Office.  This grant' goal is to enhance course delivery and student learning by providing interactive visualization system instruction for students studying information visualization $19,984.
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Evaluating User Recall of Visualized Search Results.  Central Research Development Fund (CRDF) Small Grants Program.  This research focuses on testing users' recall of search result sets that vary in display size and information density. One of the goals is to investigate the potential of visualization displays on mobile devices. $13,023. 
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                                                  Node-Link Diagram Example by Touchgraph
Comparisons of Visualization-Based Information Retrieval Systems. The goal of this project is to determine which visualization method is most effective to find information represented with digital library ontologies. Faculty Lead: Sherry Koshman. 
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A Study on the User Perception of Archiving Personal Historical Data from Web-  based Email and Blogs. Doctoral Student Investigators.  Faculty Mentor:  Sherry Koshman.
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Peace and Security Studies Thesaurus for Web Portal Architecture. (2005- 2006) $100,000. Funded by the U.S. Institute of Peace.  The controlled vocabulary was revised and expanded to serve as the foundation for a new online document repository. Funded by the U.S. Institute of Peace.  In collaboration with C. Tomer (SIS) and M. Weixel, University Center for International Studies.
Metasearch Result Visualization: an Exploratory Study (2005). This project evaluated the radial visualization used to depict the overlap of search results. Project Lead: Sherry Koshman. Including  A. Spink, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and J. Jansen, Penn State University.
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                              InfoSpace, Inc. Dogpile Overlap Tool
InfoSpace, Inc. Overlap Results (2005). This project analyzed search result overlap data for the metasearch engine DogPile.  In collaboration with A. Spink, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, J. Jansen, Penn State University, and C. Blakely, InfoSpace, Inc.
Vivisimo Project (2005). Vivisimo is a cluster-based web search engine that dynamically produces a cluster tree to organize web search results.  A transaction log analysis of user query data and cluster use was conducted.  Project initiated by Sherry Koshman in collaboration with A. Spink, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and J. Jansen, Penn State University.
Modeling Multitasking Web Search (2005). Examining users' multitasking behavior while conducting Web searches. (In collaboration with project lead A. Spink). $10,000 Funded by the University of Pittsburgh.
Analyzing User and Visualization System Generated Similarity Selections (2004).  This explored the user similarity selection of web search output in comparison to system generated sets using a web- based visualization tool, TouchGraph.
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