Redefining the Focus and Context of Focus+Context Visualizations

ABSTRACT

The increasing diversity of computers, especially among small mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs, raise new questions about information visualization techniques developed for the desktop computer. Using a series of examples ranging from applications for ordinary desktop displays to web-browsers and other applications for PDAs, we describe how a focus+context technique, Flip Zooming, is changed due to the situation it is used in. Based on these examples, we discuss how the use of ¿focus¿ and ¿context¿ in focus+context techniques change in order to fit new areas of use for information visualization.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
Information Visualization, Personal Digital Assistants, Focus+Context techniques