Elastic hierarchies: Combining Treemaps and node-link diagrams

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, INFO VIS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 57-64

  Zhao, Shengdong ^a   McGuffin, Michael J ^a   Chignell, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Combinations; Elastic Hierarchies; Hybrids; Interaction techniques; Interactive visualization; Multiple views; Nodelink diagrams; Overview+detail; Treemaps; Trees

Indexed keywords

COMBINATIONS; ELASTIC HIERARCHIES; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION; MULTIPLE VIEWS; TREEMAPS;

ANIMATION; INFORMATION THEORY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; VISUALIZATION;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749409413     PISSN: 1522404X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFVIS.2005.1532129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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