Department of Computing Science, Molde College, N-6400 Molde, Norway.

ROBERT R. KORFHAGE, KENNETH M. SOCHATS, MICHAEL B. SPRING, JAMES G. WILLIAMS

Department of Information Science, School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA15260, USA

The idea of using visualization for document retrieval is introduced through a new paradigm for query response handling. The paradigm is based on parallel queries or points of interests. Each point of interest is defined by a number of key-terms, and a display position. Documents, represented by icons, are positioned in the display based on the frequency count of word matches in the document to key- terms in the points of interest. This visualization method has been implemented through a visualization system, called VIBE.