People are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to navigate information spaces using search, hyperlinks, and visualization. But, mobile phones preclude the use of multiple coordinated views that have proven effective in the desktop environment (e.g., for business intelligence or visual analytics). In this work, we propose to model information as multivariate heterogeneous networks to enable greater analytic expression for a range of sensemaking tasks while suggesting a new, list‐based paradigm with gestural navigation of structured information spaces on mobile phones. We also present a mobile application, called Orchard, which combines ideas from both faceted search and interactive network exploration in a visual query language to allow users to collect facets of interest during exploratory navigation. Our study showed that users could collect and combine these facets with Orchard, specifying network queries and projections that would only have been possible previously using complex data tools or custom data science.

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Orchard：探索手机上的多元异构网络

人们在使用搜索、超链接和可视化来导航信息空间的能力方面变得越来越复杂。但是，移动电话排除了在桌面环境中已被证明有效的多个协调视图的使用（例如，用于商业智能或可视化分析）。在这项工作中，我们建议将信息建模为多元异构网络，以便为一系列意义构建任务提供更好的分析表达，同时提出一种新的、基于列表的范式，并在手机上对结构化信息空间进行手势导航。我们还展示了一个名为 Orchard 的移动应用程序，它以一种可视化查询语言将分面搜索和交互式网络探索的想法结合起来，以允许用户在探索性导航期间收集感兴趣的方面。