Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Artificial Intelligence Review
Software Visualization in the Large
Computer
The Tioga-2 Database Visualization Environment
Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization '95 Workshop on Database Issues for Data Visualization
The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations
VL '96 Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
Taxonomies of visual programming and program visualization
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
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We introduce a visual framework for facilitating tasks associated with database maintenance and re-use. The prototype system embodying the framework is presented. The system utilizes various techniques and features of software visualization. The system supports visual displays of the database structure along with various implicit relationships found in it such as associations and path views. Information visualized is automatically extracted from the database schema. To assess the usefulness of the proposed framework in helping the programmers to quickly recognize path views among relations, an empirical evaluation was conducted. Results collected from the evaluation seem to support our hypothesis that the time required to manually recognize path views from the database schema is considerable and tends to increase as the depth between the relations increases. The evaluation also showed that by using our visual framework such time is negligible and tends to be static.