The cost structure of sensemaking
CHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Navigating large virtual spaces
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction - Special issue on human-virtual environment interaction
Data mountain: using spatial memory for document management
Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
DENIM: finding a tighter fit between tools and practice for Web site design
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Sitemaps, storyboards, and specifications: a sketch of Web site design practice
DIS '00 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
Training wheels in a user interface
Communications of the ACM
Software Visualization
Ordered and quantum treemaps: Making effective use of 2D space to display hierarchies
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Side views: persistent, on-demand previews for open-ended tasks
Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations
VL '96 Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
Studying the Evolution and Enhancement of Software Features
ICSM '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'00)
Tree-Maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures
VIS '91 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Visualization '91
INFOVIS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Exploring the design space for adaptive graphical user interfaces
Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
User interface façades: towards fully adaptable user interfaces
UIST '06 Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Voyagers and voyeurs: supporting asynchronous collaborative information visualization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Strategies for accelerating on-line learning of hotkeys
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A probabilistic mental model for estimating disruption
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
A survey of software learnability: metrics, methodologies and guidelines
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CommunityCommands: command recommendations for software applications
Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Beyond performance: Feature awareness in personalized interfaces
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Evaluating reduced-functionality interfaces according to feature findability and awareness
INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction
Visualizing information associated with architectural design variations and simulations
DUXU'13 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability: web, mobile, and product design - Volume Part IV
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In traditional graphical user interfaces, the majority of UI elements are hidden to the user in the default view, as application designers and users desire more space for their application data. We explore the benefits of dedicating additional screen space for presenting an alternative visualization of an application's user interface. Some potential benefits are to assist users in examining complex software, understanding the extent of an application's capabilities, and exploring the available features. We propose user interface visualizations, alternative representations of an application's interface augmented with usage information. We introduce a design space for UI visualizations and describe some initial prototypes and insights based on this design space. We then present AppMap, our new design, which displays the entire function set of AutoCAD and allows the user to interactively explore the visualization which is augmented with visual overlays displaying analytical data about the functions and their relations. In our initial studies, users welcomed this new presentation of functionality, and the unique information that it presents.