Cooliris – Visualization of searching media
I found a fascinating plug-in for firefox — Cooliris. (Maybe some of you already know it.)
It is about visualizing multimedia contents searched by search engine like Google. I think it could be a good example of the importance of information presentation.
While Cooliris basically shows the same data as Google does, Cooliris gives much better experience and navigation. Let me show some screenshots that I took by myself.
The picture above is a normal view of the result of Google search with keyword “ontology.” Then how about Cooliris?
Cooliris provides a full 3D stack of image search results. I think this kind of presentation would really enhance user experience in searching, although it just shows the same things.
[Added later]
I think that I described this in a poor manner. As Nick explained in comment, I just captured one of dynamically moving scene. I can navigate the collection by dragging mouse and enlarge what I want to see in detail by clicking on the picture.