Re: Facet sliders at Amazon

> It's a tool for choosing diamonds at Amazon.com, and it uses sliders
> to let the user choose from price, carat, cut, colour, and clarity.

This is an example of "dynamic queries" which have been a staple of
information visualization tools for many years. Famous early
prototypes of dynamic queries include the Home Finder and the Film
Finder. Today, the commercial tool called Spotfire is heavily based
on dynamic queries.

To learn more about dynamic queries and these early prototypes, see
this article (includes videos demonstrating these tools)

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/spotfire/




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Karl Fast
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