Interacting with huge hierarchies: Beyond cone trees (1995) [24 citations — 1 self]
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Carriere95interactingwith,author = {Jeromy Carriere and Rick Kazman},
title = {Interacting with huge hierarchies: Beyond cone trees},
booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Information Visualization '95, IEEE Computer Press, Los Alamitos, CA},
year = {1995},
pages = {74--81}
}
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Abstract:
This paper describes an implementation of a tool for visualizing and interacting with huge information hierarchies, and some preliminary empirical evaluation of the tool's efficacy. Existing systems for visualizing huge hierarchies using cone trees "break down " once the hierarchy to be displayed exceeds roughly 1000 nodes, due to increasing visual clutter. This paper describes a system called fsviz which visualizes arbitrarily large hierarchies while retaining user control. This is accomplished by augmenting cone trees with several graphical and interaction techniques: usage-based filtering, animated zooming, hand-coupled rotation, fish-eye zooming, coalescing of distant nodes, texturing, effective use of colour for depth cueing, and the applications of dynamic queries. The fsviz system also improves upon earlier cone tree visualization systems through a more elaborate node layout algorithm. This algorithm enhances the usefulness of cone tree visualization for large hierarchies by all but eliminating clutter.
