Dear Reader,

for the development of my thesis’ work I prepared, together with Lorenzo Viscanti, an experiment on Visual Information Retrieval. I ask your participation in this experiment that will last not more that 15/20 minutes.

If you agree, you will need to visit the following web page: http://www.noosfactory.com/visual%5Fir/ . There you will find some more information on the assignment: you will be presented two tasks, each of which will last 5 minutes. Each task will require you to run some queries on a collection of news articles compiled by Reuter during the ’80s. Finally, you will be posed 4 brief questions.

Please note that there will be an extra 5 minutes to download the application that you will use to participate in the task. This time may vary depending on your internet connection speed.

Tags: information retrieval, Latent Semantic Analysis, map algorithms, spatial clustering, spreading activation