ArcTrees: Visualizing Relations in Hierarchical Data

Neumann, Petra; Schlechtweg, Dr. Stefan; Carpendale, Sheelagh

ArcTrees: Visualizing Relations in Hierarchical Data

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053-060.pdf (2.02 MB)

Date

2005

Authors

Neumann, Petra
Schlechtweg, Dr. Stefan
Carpendale, Sheelagh

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

In this paper we present, ARCTREES, 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. We propose a hierarchical view derived from traditional Treemaps and augment this view 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.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis05/053-060
,
booktitle = {EUROVIS 2005: Eurographics / IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization
},
editor = {Ken Brodlie and David Duke and Ken Joy
},
title = {{ArcTrees: Visualizing Relations in Hierarchical Data
}},
author = {Neumann, Petra and 
Schlechtweg, Dr. Stefan and 
Carpendale, Sheelagh
},
year = {2005
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-5296
},
ISBN = {3-905673-19-3
},
DOI = {/10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis05/053-060
}
}