Visual Analytics

A special issue on ‘human-centred information visualization’ was published in the journal of Information Visualization. Attached zip file is a collection of the papers published in the special issue.

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In the current editorial I would like to ruminate about why top journals accept papers. This is a topic close to my heart and one that I have presented, in part, at numerous Information System venues worldwide …

MIS Quarterly Vol. 33 No. 3 pp. iii-x/September 2009

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“A Review of Overview+Detail, Zooming, and Focus+Context Interfaces”

ANDY COCKBURN
University of Canterbury

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AMY KARLSON and BENJAMIN B. BEDERSON
University of Maryland

ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 41, No. 1, Article 2, Publication date: December 2008

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 interface mechanisms used to separate and blend views. The four approaches are overview+detail, which uses a spatial separation between focused and contextual views; zooming, which uses a temporal separation; focus+context, which minimizes the seam between views by displaying the focus within the context; and cue-based techniques which selectively highlight or suppress items within the information space. Critical features of these categories, and empirical evidence of their success, are discussed. The aim is to provide a succinct summary of the stateof-the-art, to illuminate both successful and unsuccessful interface strategies, and to identify potentially fruitful areas for further work.

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