Graham, Martin and Kennedy, Jessie (2001) Combining linking and focusing techniques for a multiple hierarchy visualisation. In: Proceedings [of the] Fifth International Conference on Information Visualisation. International Conferences on Information Visualisation (5). IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, USA, pp. 425-432. ISBN 0 7695 1195 3

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Abstract/Description

Visualisations have previously combined linking and brushing operations successfully. However, none to our knowledge have combined linking and focussing techniques. We describe the motivation behind developing such a technique, and show how our visualisation takes advantage of inherent links in a set of multiple overlapping hierarchies to build a mechanism that can produce linked focus + context effects between these multiple hierarchies with a single user action. Previously, our visualisation had utilised linking only, using colour to highlight correlations between distinct but overlapping hierarchies.

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