Comparative Analysis of Flight Search Representations

Abstract

Visualization has been extensively used in almost all the fields, but unfortunately, there is very little work on the visualization of flight search. The literature discusses only two representations: textual representation and linear representation. In this study, the authors introduce a new form of visualization called circular representation and compare it with the existing visualization techniques. The authors found that each representation has its own merits and demerits. More specifically, they found that users were able to find required flight circular efficiently when using circular representation, while most errors were committed by the user when using textual representation, and users ranked circular representation low in terms of qualitative satisfaction.