EncCon: An approach to constructing interactive visualization of large hierarchical data

Information Visualization

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-21

  Nguyen, Quang Vinh ^a   Huang, Mao Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

focus + context; hierarchical visualization; Information visualization; interactive visualization; navigation; transparency; tree layout

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993709305     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500087     Document Type: Article

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