The MatrixBrowser presents a new approach for visualizing and exploring large networked information structures that may represent, for instance, linked information resources or metadata structures such as ontologies. An interactive matrix display is used for showing relations between concepts and concept hierarchies displayed along the two axes of a matrix. The new approach also focuses on the engineering process to create these information networks. Initial user testing shows performance advantages as well as reduced visual search in comparison to conventional graph representations.

The source code is licenced under the GPL for non commercial applications. For use in commercial applications please contact the author. Anyway, please read carefully the licence. Click here for the projects summary page.

The author likes to thank Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ziegler for his basic ideas on MatrixBrowser, Dipl.-Phys. Veit Botsch for his conceptual work and all the assistants having worked on the prototype. MatrixBrowser has been developed in the leading project INVITE of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In the the project AWAKE of the same founder MatrixBrowser is used as a semantic search engine.

MatrixBrowser is beeing developed by Christoph Kunz at the Competence Center Human-Computer Interaction at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO)