A focus+context visualization technique using semi-transparency

Nguyen, QV; Lin, MH

A focus+context visualization technique using semi-transparency

Nguyen, QV Lin, MH

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Citation:: Proceedings - The Fourth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2004), 2004, pp. 101 - 108
Issue Date:: 2004-12-14

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Nguyen, QV	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Lin, MH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6896-6480	en_US
dc.date.issued	2004-12-14	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings - The Fourth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2004), 2004, pp. 101 - 108	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	0769522165	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/3015
dc.description.abstract	This paper describes a new 2D focus+context visualization technique for viewing and navigating large hierarchical information. This technique uses a semi-transparency approach to display both the global and the detail views of the hierarchy with an overlapped manner in the same display space. The twin views always keep one in highlighted and another in deemphasized, and this state can be shifted interactively when a user focuses on other view. The main advantage of this technique is that there is no geometrical partitioning required and both the context view and the focus view can use the full display space. To achieve the smooth transactions between the views, animation is accommodated to preserver user's mental map during the navigation. Although this visualization technique can theoretically be applied to many layout algorithms, we only apply this technique, in our implementation, for viewing and navigating hierarchies that are drawn by ENCCON [1] layout algorithm.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings - The Fourth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2004)	en_US
dc.title	A focus+context visualization technique using semi-transparency	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.for	080605 Decision Support and Group Support Systems	en_US
utslib.for	080499 Data Format not elsewhere classified	en_US
dc.location.activity	Wuhan, China	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - INEXT - Innovation in IT Services and Applications
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

This paper describes a new 2D focus+context visualization technique for viewing and navigating large hierarchical information. This technique uses a semi-transparency approach to display both the global and the detail views of the hierarchy with an overlapped manner in the same display space. The twin views always keep one in highlighted and another in deemphasized, and this state can be shifted interactively when a user focuses on other view. The main advantage of this technique is that there is no geometrical partitioning required and both the context view and the focus view can use the full display space. To achieve the smooth transactions between the views, animation is accommodated to preserver user's mental map during the navigation. Although this visualization technique can theoretically be applied to many layout algorithms, we only apply this technique, in our implementation, for viewing and navigating hierarchies that are drawn by ENCCON [1] layout algorithm.

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