Image courtesy of http://www.cybergeography.org/, originally uploaded by Jimbo (Alan James Wellock).
TouchGraph is an actual fully functional navigation system for searching through data visually on the Internet. TouchGraph believe that to most efficiently navigate through the vast amount of data on the Internet it is better to see the 'big picture' and how each website is connected, rather than linearly scrolling down a webpage. This shows the user how the information relates to each other, easing the use of the Internet. Using the search engine Google, the Java applet animates and grows website nodes, connecting each one up to its originator along the way. Since this is a fully functional program it is very easy to use as you originally just type into a search box to start the search. The results are hard to decipher at first due to the continuess conditioning of such linear search engines as Google itself has had on us the digital users. Once you understand it though its becomes a good alternative to usual search engines, and thanks to visual connections it seems to let you decipher the data quicker as it works very simlar to how your actual brain works.
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