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1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '95)
Research report: Interacting with huge hierarchies: beyond cone trees
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
October 30-October 31
ISBN: 0-8186-7201-3
J. Carriere, Dept. of Comput. Sci., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada
R. Kazman, Dept. of Comput. Sci., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada
The paper describes an implementation of a tool for visualizing and interacting with huge information hierarchies, and some preliminary empirical evaluation of the tool's efficacy. Existing systems for visualizing huge hierarchies using cone trees "break down" once the hierarchy to be displayed exceeds roughly 1000 nodes, due to increasing visual clutter. The paper describes a system called fsviz which visualizes arbitrarily large hierarchies while retaining user control. This is accomplished by augmenting cone trees with several graphical and interaction techniques: usage-based filtering, animated zooming, hand-coupled rotation, fish-eye zooming, coalescing of distant nodes, texturing, effective use of colour for depth cueing, and the applications of dynamic queries. The fsviz system also improves upon earlier cone tree visualization systems through a more elaborate node layout algorithm. This algorithm enhances the usefulness of cone tree visualization for large hierarchies by all but eliminating clutter.
Index Terms:
data visualisation; computer animation; tree data structures; huge information hierarchy visualisation; huge information hierarchy interaction; huge hierarchies; empirical evaluation; tool efficacy; cone trees; visual clutter; fsviz; user control; graphical techniques; interaction techniques; usage-based filtering; animated zooming; hand-coupled rotation; fish-eye zooming; distant node coalescence; texturing; colour; depth cueing; dynamic queries; cone tree visualization systems; node layout algorithm
Citation:
J. Carriere, R. Kazman, "Research report: Interacting with huge hierarchies: beyond cone trees," ieee_infovis, pp.74, 1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '95), 1995
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