Constant information density in zoomable interfaces

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 57-65

  Woodruff, Allison ^a   Landay, James ^a   Stonebraker, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clutter; Information density; Information navigation; Interactive graphics; Visual interfaces; Visualization; Zoomable interfaces

Indexed keywords

DATABASE VISUALIZATION; DIRECT MANIPULATION; INFORMATION DENSITY; INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; USER NAVIGATION; VISUAL INTERFACE; ZOOMABLE INTERFACES;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); FLOW VISUALIZATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84877312361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/948496.948505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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