Chapter 10 - Future work

An important issue for future work is to research and explain how MOVSOM incorporates what is commonly referred to as Web 2.0. How can for example MOVSOM be used in the new Web 2.0 phenomena commonly referred to as collaborative tagging . Using MOVSOM tags can be visualized in new and interesting ways as opposed to being used as simple alphabetical lists of tags associated with a item.

Navigating the semantic web, another often heralded feature of Web 2.0, have been attempted using tags and hierarchical categories, it is our intention in the near future to provide a browser plug-in interface (for which Firefox seems to be a good choice) that incorporates visual navigation of both the collaborative and the semantic movie web.

Another interesting direction for future work is how recommender systems can play an important part of online communities, i.e. social collaborative filtering.

Further research regarding the interface of MOVSOM is also planned, features such as personalized maps, where each user creates his own map consisting of movies, ordered and labeled by the user himself. This maps can then be compared to other users maps and also be used by MOVSOM to base recommendations on

Algorithmically we would like to investigate different SOM techniques like hierarchical SOMs and growing SOMs to see if they can contribute to making the interface even more interesting without loosing any of its current capabilities. We are also interested in researching the possibilities of using a spherical SOM to increase the intuitivety of the maps.

Practically we will investigate the implications of the usage of very large datasets. Finally we are also interested in studying the possibilites of using the MOVSOM interface for navigating between sites on the web.

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