An evaluation of content browsing techniques for hierarchical space-filling visualizations

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, INFO VIS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 81-88

  Shi, Kang ^a   Irani, Pourang ^a   Li, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Browsing; Distortion; Drill down; Focus+context; Hierarchy navigation; Semantic zooming; Space filling visualization; TreeMap

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NAVIGATION; SPACE APPLICATIONS; TARGETS; TRACKING (POSITION); VISUALIZATION; WEB BROWSERS;

DISTORTIONS; DRILL DOWN; SEMANTIC ZOOMING; SPACE FILLING VISUALIZATION; TREEMAPS;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 33749399550     PISSN: 1522404X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFVIS.2005.1532132     Document Type: Conference Paper

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