Expand-ahead: A space-filling strategy for browsing trees

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, INFO VIS

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 119-127

  McGuffin, Michael J ^a   Davison, Gord ^b   Balakrishnan, Ravin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b IBM TORONTO LAB   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive user interfaces; Automatic expansion; Expand ahead; Focus+context; Space filling; Tree browsing and navigation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACE; AUTOMATIC EXPANSION; EXPAND AHEAD; FOCUS+CONTEXT; SPACE FILLING; TREE BROWSING AND NAVIGATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; SET THEORY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); TWO DIMENSIONAL; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 16244376176     PISSN: 1522404X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFVIS.2004.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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