A review of overview+detail, zooming, and focus+context interfaces

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Cockburn, Andy ^a   Karlson, Amy ^b   Bederson, Benjamin B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisheye views; Focus+context; Information display; Information visualization; Overview+detail; Review paper; Zoomable user interfaces

Indexed keywords

FISHEYE VIEWS; FOCUS+CONTEXT; INFORMATION DISPLAY; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; OVERVIEW+DETAIL; ZOOMABLE USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 66649126189     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1456650.1456652     Document Type: Article

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