There are many interface schemes that allow users to work at, and move between, focused
and contextual views of a dataset. We review and categorize these schemes according to …

The considerable previous work characterizing visualization usage has focused on low-level
tasks or interactions and high-level tasks, leaving a gap between them that is not addressed …

The increasing scale and availability of digital data provides an extraordinary resource for
informing public policy, scientific discovery, business strategy, and even our personal lives …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

A useful starting point for designing advanced graphical user interfaces is the Visual
Information-Seeking Mantra: overview first, zoom and filter, then details on demand. But this …

LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories that can be
applied to medical and court records, professional histories and other types of biographical …

As users pan and zoom, display content can disappear into off-screen space, particularly on
small-screen devices. The clip** of locations, such as relevant places on a map, can make …

Radial, space-filling visualizations can be useful for depicting information hierarchies, but
they suffer from one major problem. As the hierarchy grows in size, many items become …

Immersive virtual environments (VEs) have potential in many application areas, but many
complex VE systems exhibit usability and interaction problems. This is partly due to a lack of …

Even as developments in photorealistic computer graphics continue to affect our work and
leisure activities, practitioners and researchers are devoting more and more attention to non …