A fast focus+context viewing technique for the navigation of classical hierarchical layout

Author

Nguyen, Quang Vinh ; Huang, Mao Lin

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Technol., Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2003

fDate

16-18 July 2003

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

46

Abstract

We present a fast focus+context viewing technique for the navigation of classical hierarchical layouts. In these layout techniques, only one dimension is considerably important to the visualization. Based on this property, we consider only one dimension of distortion of views for browsing the hierarchical structures. We firstly introduce briefly some information visualization techniques. We then discuss the features, advantages and limitations of layout and navigation of current classical hierarchical layouts. We finally introduce our new focus+context technique that is simple and fast for the navigation and exploration of the classical hierarchical layouts.

Keywords

computational complexity; data visualisation; tree data structures; browsing view distortion; classical hierarchical layout navigation; computational complexity; focus+context viewing technique; hierarchical tree structure; information visualization technique; Data visualization; Displays; Impedance matching; Information filtering; Information filters; Lenses; Microcomputers; Navigation; Tree graphs; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003. Proceedings. Seventh International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1988-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2003.1217955

Filename

1217955