Visualizing the World-Wide Web with the navigational view builder
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
Ordered and quantum treemaps: Making effective use of 2D space to display hierarchies
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Domain Name Based Visualization of Web Histories in a Zoomable User Interface
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Navigation by zooming in boxes: preliminary evaluation
Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Browsing Zoomable Treemaps: Structure-Aware Multi-Scale Navigation Techniques
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
2D/3D web visualization on mobile devices
WISE'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web Information Systems
Interactive treemapswith detail on demand to support information search in documents
VISSYM'04 Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG conference on Visualization
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Typically, the navigation area of a website is organized as a hierarchical menu of pages and subpages. For some types of websites, such as blogs, this is not a suitable choice: The importance of blog articles changes dynamically, e.g. depending on their age or the amount of public interest they generate. Navigation to other blogs via links to related articles (so-called "trackbacks") plays an important role, both to find related content and to estimate the relevance of an unknown blog based on the reputation of the blog that links to it. In this paper, we propose a new, interactive type of navigation area which addresses the special needs of websites with a flat hierarchy that link to related sites. The Trackback Map relies on a treemap to visualize the relative importance of individual articles on a blog at a single glance. By zooming into the map, the user can reach articles on other blogs that link to the current blog's article, or (to any depth) articles that link to those articles. A prototype of the concept has been implemented as a WordPress plugin. In a user study, it is compared to established navigation concepts, e.g. a tag cloud.