Stack zooming for multi-focus interaction in time-series data visualization

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2010, PacificVis 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 33-40

  Javed, Waqas ^a   Elmqvist, Niklas ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

H.5.2 information interfaces and presentation : user interfaces Graphical User Interfaces (GUI); I.3.6 computer graphics : methodology and techniques interaction techniques

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DISTANCE-AWARENESS; FOCUS POINTS; H.5.2 [INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION]; H.5.2 [INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION]: USER INTERFACES - GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (GUI); I.3.6 [COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: METHODOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES; I.3.6 [COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: METHODOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES - INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; LOCAL STATISTICS; MULTI-FOCUS; TEMPORAL DATA; TIME SERIES VISUALIZATION; TIME-SERIES DATA; VISUAL EXPLORATION; VISUAL SPACE;

DATA VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VISUALIZATION;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 77951695749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2010.5429613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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