Title :
Improving the visualization of hierarchies with treemaps: design issues and experimentation
Author :
Turo, David ; Johnson, Brian
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
Controlled experiments with novice treemap users and real data highlight the strengths of treemaps and provide direction for improvement. Issues discussed include experimental results, layout algorithms, nesting offsets, labeling, animation, and small multiple displays. Treemaps prove to be a potent tool for hierarchy display. The principles discussed are applicable to many information visualization situations
Keywords :
computer animation; data visualisation; tree data structures; trees (mathematics); animation; experimental results; hierarchy display; information visualization situations; labeling; layout algorithms; nesting offsets; novice treemap users; real data; small multiple displays; Animation; Computer displays; Computer science; Data visualization; Drives; Educational institutions; Labeling; Laboratories; Large screen displays; Partitioning algorithms;
Conference_Titel :
Visualization, 1992. Visualization '92, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2897-9
DOI :
10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235217
