• DocumentCode
    3301296
  • 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
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    19-23 Oct 1992
  • Firstpage
    124
  • Lastpage
    131
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Visualization, 1992. Visualization '92, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Boston, MA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-2897-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235217
  • Filename
    235217