Broadening Access to Large Online Databases by Generalizing Query Previews

Egemen Tanin, Catherine Plaisant and Ben Shneidermanben@cs.umd.edu,     Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Institute for Systems Research, and Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD 20742, + 1 301 405-2725. E-mail address: egemen@cs.umd.edu, plaisant@cs.umd.edu

ABSTRACT

Companies, government agencies, and other types of organizations are making their large databases available to the world over the Internet. Current database front-ends do not give users information about the distribution of data. This leads many users to waste time and network resources posing queries that ...

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