A focus+context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies

Lamping, John; Rao, Ramana; Pirolli, Peter

doi:10.1145/223904.223956

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“…These employ strategies to make large, complex trees easier to interpret, e.g. specialized zoom techniques [2][3][4] and layout algorithms [5,6]. This work has led to a variety of innovative designs and strategies for presenting the most important information to users and hiding unneeded information, while simultaneously maintaining a sense of location and context within the tree, such as the SpaceTree [7].…”

Section: Browsing Hierarchiesmentioning

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Hoptrees: Branching History Navigation for Hierarchies

Brooks

West

Aragon

et al. 2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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Abstract.Designing software for exploring hierarchical data sets is challenging because users can easily become lost in large hierarchies. We present a novel interface, the hoptree, to assist users with navigating large hierarchies. The hoptree preserves navigational history and context and allows one-click navigation to recently-visited locations. We describe the design of hoptrees and an implementation that we created for a tree exploration application. We discuss the potential for hoptrees to be used in a wide variety of hierarchy navigation scenarios. Through a controlled experiment, we compared the effectiveness of hoptrees to a breadcrumb navigation interface. Study participants overwhelmingly preferred the hoptree, with improved time-on-task with no difference in error rates.

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Section: Browsing Hierarchiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hoptrees: Branching History Navigation for Hierarchies

Brooks

West

Aragon

et al. 2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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“…To remedy the inefficient use of space, hyperbolic tree viewer [15] places the hierarchy on a hyperbolic plane, and then maps the plane onto a circular region. User's focus on the tree will be given more space, accentuating the structures around it.…”

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CropCircles: Topology Sensitive Visualization of OWL Class Hierarchies

Wang

Parsia

2006

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. OWL ontologies present many interesting visualization challenges. Here we present CropCircles, a technique designed to view the class hierarchies in ontologies as trees. We place special emphasis on topology understanding when designing the tool. We drew inspiration from treemaps, but made substantial changes in the representation and layout. Most notably, the spacefillingness of treemap is relaxed in exchange for visual clarity. We outline the problem scape of visualizing ontology hierarchies, note the requirements that go into the design of the tool, and discuss the interface and implementation. Finally, through a controlled experiment involving tasks common to understanding ontologies, we show the benefits of our design.

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“…Distortion gives more room to designated points of interest and decreases the space given to those objects away from these points. Some techniques have been designed to work with a single focus, such as the hyperbolic lens [10]. Others allow for multiple foci to be simultaneously expanded [12].…”

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Visualization of Large Nested Graphs in 3D: Navigation and Interaction

Parker¹,

Franck²,

Ware³

1998

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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Most systems for visualizing large information structures use 2D graphics to view networks of nodes and arcs that represent data. To understand large structures it is often necessary to show both small-scale and large-scale structure. This has been called the problem of focus and context. Distortion, rapid zooming, elision, and multiple windows are all techniques that have been developed to provide both focus and context within single representations. We review these techniques and argue that 3D visualization has a number of advantages. A system called NestedVision3D (NV3D) will be presented that has been developed to investigate the use of 3D visualization for understanding the structure of large computer programs.NV3D is a system for visualizing large nested graphs using interactive 3D graphics. It has been tested with graphs containing more than 35,000 nodes and 100,000 relationships. We describe NV3D and its design philosophy. Basic navigation is facilitated by a set of 3D widgets, rapid scaling, and interactive elision. More experimental features include animations called snakes, which are used to trace dynamic software behavior.7/18/00 3Parker et. al.

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A focus+context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies

Cited by 625 publications

References 18 publications

Hoptrees: Branching History Navigation for Hierarchies

Hoptrees: Branching History Navigation for Hierarchies

CropCircles: Topology Sensitive Visualization of OWL Class Hierarchies

Visualization of Large Nested Graphs in 3D: Navigation and Interaction

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