Interactive Visualization of blog searches

Abstract: This report describes the project Interactive Visualization of Blog Searches from research andconcept creation to the final implementation results. The purpose of this project was to develop avisual interface for browsing search results from the Twingly blog search engine which intends tosimplify the users screening process and encourage browsing. The methods used to develop andimplement the search interface and the two final results, the concept and the implementation, arepresented in this report.The concept is an ideal description of the proposed functionality and components of the blog searchinterface developed during the initial phase of this project. Three different concepts were developedand one was chosen for further development, all three concepts are presented. The final conceptwhich was chosen for implementation is an augmented version of an existing interface originallyused for presenting album covers in Apple’s application iTunes.The implementation is the realization of the concept and was implemented as a Flash applicationusing the programming language ActionScript 3 and the 3D engine Papervision. The final applicationimplements most of the functionality and graphical content described in the concept butunfortunately suffers from a low frame rate. The main reasons for this low frame rate and proposedimprovements to the implementation are discussed at the end of the report.