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      Using Information Visualisation to Support Visual Web Service Discovery

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      The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
      Human Computer Interaction
      12 - 14 September 2012
      Web Service Discovery, Web Service Collection, Information Visualisation, Prototype, User Study, Results
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            This paper presents the design and evaluation of SerViz – a tool to support the visualisation of web service collections. The increasing number of web services available on the Internet highlights the need for an effective method of discovering these web services. Existing web service discovery methods do not, however, effectively support the user in finding suitable web services. Two information visualisation (IV) techniques, namely a network and tree IV technique, were used to visualise a large web service collection. A user study was conducted to compare these IV techniques. Participants provided high ratings for overall satisfaction for both IV techniques and low ratings for perceived cognitive load. Participants found both IV techniques easy to use and easy to learn. The results of the user study show that SerViz supports effective visual web service discovery. While the tree IV technique was faster for browsing for web services, the network IV technique was faster for searching.

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            Contributors
            Conference
            September 2012
            September 2012
            : 11-20
            Affiliations
            [0001]Department of Computing Sciences , Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

            P. O. Box 77000, Port Elizabeth, 6031, South Africa
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/HCI2012.6
            faef2e22-b187-4888-8b94-859112e09504
            © Simone Beets et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Birmingham, UK

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            The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction
            HCI
            26
            Birmingham, UK
            12 - 14 September 2012
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Human Computer Interaction
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/HCI2012.6
            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
            Categories
            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Web Service Discovery,Web Service Collection,Information Visualisation,Prototype,User Study,Results

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