Title :
A fluid treemap interface for personal digital libraries
Author :
Good, Lance ; Popat, Ashok C. ; Janssen, William C. ; Bier, Eric
Author_Institution :
Palo Alto Res. Center, CA
Abstract :
The UC system employs hybrid quantum/continuous treemaps for fluidly interacting with documents in a personal digital library. By incorporating a document reader application within the visualization workspace, UC supports multi-document reading tasks that have been traditionally accomplished by laying out documents on a physical desk. One of the overall goals of the system is to eliminate the boundary between acquiring and using documents
Keywords :
data visualisation; digital libraries; document image processing; tree data structures; user interfaces; UC system; document reader; fluid treemap interface; hybrid quantum/continuous treemaps; multi-document reading; personal digital libraries; visualization workspace; Computer interfaces; File systems; Graphical user interfaces; Human factors; Keyword search; Quantum computing; Software libraries; Tree graphs; User interfaces; Visualization; computer-aided reading; desktop search; personal digital library; visualization; zoomable user interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2005. JCDL '05. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-876-8
DOI :
10.1145/1065385.1065512