網路的快速發展讓資訊取得更方便,因此使用者能夠透過評論網站表達意見並與其他使用者進行互動。這些互動產生的評論就成為後續使用者的參考資料。在本研究中,我們使用圖像隱喻法的概念,利用評論資訊的Communication-Garden System與呈現階層資料量化資訊的Treemaps技術結合而成的3D視覺化技術,稱之為Opinion-Garden System,來進行評論意見視覺化。在本論文中,我們將Opinion Garden技術應用於評論網站資料,並將大量評論資料視覺化,讓使用者方便快速 讀取並且發現更多的資訊與其中的關聯,藉此協助使用者立即掌握資料間的重要關係,成為決策上很好的參考。
Because of the rapid development of the Internet, users can conveniently get information and interact with other people via review websites. In this study, we use garden-based metaphors to visualize the opinion reviews in these websites. The proposed 3D gardenbased visualization scheme is called Opinion-Garden System which combines the 2D visualization techniques of Communication-Garden System and the Treemaps visualization technique. We have applied Opinion-Garden System to an opinion review dataset retrieved from a well-known website. The proposed scheme can help users quickly obtain the hierarchical relationships among opinion targets and the quantitative information of opinion reviews. The empirical analysis shows that Opinion-Garden System can provide many important references to users.