Interactive history tools, ranging from basic undo and redo to branching timelines of user actions, facilitate iterative forms of interaction. In this paper, we investigate the design of history mechanisms for information visualization. We present a ...

Keywords: Index Terms—, Visualization, history, undo, analysis, presentation, evaluation

This paper describes Show Me, an integrated set of user interface commands and defaults that incorporate automatic presentation into a commercial visual analysis system called Tableau. A key aspect of Tableau is VizQL, a language for specifying views, ...

Keywords: Automatic presentation, visual analysis, graphic design, best practices, data visualization, small multiples.

This paper describes the 3Book, a 3D interactive visualization of a codex book as a component for various digital library and sensemaking systems. The book is designed to hold large books and to support sensemaking operations by readers. The book includes ...

Keywords: 3D UI, 3D books, eBooks, electronic publishing, sensemaking, spreading activation

This paper describes the 3Book, a 3D interactive visualization of a codex book as a component for digital library and information-intensive applications. The 3Book is able to represent books of almost unlimited length, allows users to read large format ...

Keywords: 3D UI, 3D books, eBooks, electronic publishing, sensemaking

Wideband displays fill our field of view, creating new opportunities to develop effective visual interfaces. Although multiple monitors are becoming an affordable way to create wideband displays, the resulting seams create gaps in words and divide ...

Keywords: multiple monitors, seam-aware interfaces, wideband displays

City Lights are space-efficient fisheye techniques that provide contextual views along the borders of windows and subwindows that describe unseen objects in all directions. We present a family of techniques that use a range of graphical dimensions to ...

Keywords: contextual views, fisheye views, focus+context, overview+detail, scrollbars, spatial hypertext, visual information workspaces, zoomable user interfaces

Visualization is a powerful way to facilitate data analysis, but it is crucial that visualization systems explicitly convey the presence, nature, and degree of uncertainty to users. Otherwise, there is a danger that data will be falsely interpreted, ...

Keywords: uncertainty visualization, bounded uncertainty

The Fluid Documents project has developed various research prototypes that show that powerful annotation techniques based on animated typographical changes can help readers utilize annotations more effectively. Our recently-developed Fluid Open Hypermedia ...

Keywords: RDF, XLink, XPointer, annotations, annotea, fluid documents, web augmentation with open hypermedia