ArcTrees
Petra Neumann Isenberg
Stefan Schlechtweg
Sheelagh Carpendale
ArcTrees are a novel way of visualizing hierarchical and non-hierarchical relations within one interactive visualization. Such a visualization is challenging because it must display hierarchical information in a way that the user can keep his or her mental map of the data set and include relational information without causing misinterpretation. Our tree view is derived from traditional Treemaps and augmented with an arc diagram to depict relations. In addition, we present interaction methods that allow the exploration of the data set using Focus+Context techniques for navigation. The development was motivated by a need for understanding relations in structured documents but it is also useful in many other application domains such as project management and calendars.
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Publications
| Petra Neumann, Stefan Schlechtweg and M.Sheelagh T. Carpendale. ArcTrees: Visualizing Relations in Hierarchical Data. In Proceedings of Eurographics, IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis2005). Eurographics, pages 53-60, 2005. |  
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| Petra Neumann, Stefan Schlechtweg and Sheelagh Carpendale. Interactive Poster: ArcTrees –- Relations in Hierarchies. In IEEE Infovis Poster Compendium. IEEE Press, 2005. |
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