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16th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence--Workshops (ICAT'06)
LensTree: Browsing and Navigating Large Hierarchical Information Structures
Hangzhou, China
November 29-December 01
ISBN: 0-7695-2754-X
Hongzhi Song, South China Agricultural University, China
Yu Qi, South China Agricultural University, China
Lei Xiao, South China Agricultural University, China
Tonglin Zhu, South China Agricultural University, China
Edwin P. Curran, University of Ulster, UK
This paper presents LensTree, a novel browsing and navigation tool for large hierarchical information structures. It enhances traditional indented lists by applying focus + context view to its design. LensTree dynamically changes the sizes of nodes to provide a focal area around the mouse pointer while keeping nodes in the peripheral area in smaller sizes as context. This enables it to display a larger hierarchy than traditional indented lists within the same screen area. Therefore scrolling and expanding/ collapsing are less often used so that it is more efficient for performing browsing and navigation tasks. An informal user test was conducted and the users showed strong interest to LensTree?s visual presentation. It suggested that this technique was worth further exploitation.
Citation:
Hongzhi Song, Yu Qi, Lei Xiao, Tonglin Zhu, Edwin P. Curran, "LensTree: Browsing and Navigating Large Hierarchical Information Structures," icat, pp.682-687, 16th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence--Workshops (ICAT'06), 2006
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