ADAPT: a generic iconic tool for structural viewing of information
ADAPT is an adaptive browser-style user interface for large volumes of information. It was developed as a part of the TRIAD project at The Ohio State University. ADAPT provides an iconic interface to an information base by providing a structural view of relationships and entities. ADAPT is usable on multiple systems and domains, and can access multiple information sources simultaneously. The objective of this interface is to assist the user in a cognitively supportive manner: that is, in a manner akin to methods the user would employ manually. This is achieved by giving the user control over content and context of the displays. A query mechanism is used to form displays interactively under user control as well as to provide predefined displays under the control of the system designer or administrator. A mathematical model as a specification of ADAPT's operation is described. The mathematical model is based on an augmented multigraph formalism and operations defined on it. The model is used to show basic completeness of the operations and computational bounds. An architecture for the adaptive display tool is given, and the mapping from an information source in a problem domain to a multigraph representation is illustrated with the TRIAD system.
- Research Organization:
- Ohio State Univ., Columbus (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6354816
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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