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Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations
November/December 2007 (vol. 13 no. 6)
pp. 1129-1136
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Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala, "Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1129-1136, November/December, 2007.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70589,
author = {Wesley Willett and Jeffrey Heer and Maneesh Agrawala},
title = {Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {13},
number = {6},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2007},
pages = {1129-1136},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2007.70589},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TI - Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations
IS - 6
SN - 1077-2626
SP1129
EP1136
EPD - 1129-1136
A1 - Wesley Willett,
A1 - Jeffrey Heer,
A1 - Maneesh Agrawala,
PY - 2007
KW - Information visualization
KW - user interface toolkits
KW - information foraging
KW - social navigation
KW - social data analysis
VL - 13
JA - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
ER -
 
This paper presents scented widgets, graphical user interface controls enhanced with embedded visualizations that facilitate navigation in information spaces. We describe design guidelines for adding visual cues to common user interface widgets such as radio buttons, sliders, and combo boxes and contribute a general software framework for applying scented widgets within applications with minimal modifications to existing source code. We provide a number of example applications and describe a controlled experiment which finds that users exploring unfamiliar data make up to twice as many unique discoveries using widgets imbued with social navigation data. However, these differences equalize as familiarity with the data increases.

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Index Terms:
Information visualization, user interface toolkits, information foraging, social navigation, social data analysis
Citation:
Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala, "Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1129-1136, Nov.-Dec. 2007, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2007.70589
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