Tree visualization with tree-maps: 2-d space-filling approach
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
PhotoMesa: a zoomable image browser using quantum treemaps and bubblemaps
Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Browsing through an information visualization design space
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Liquid 2D Scatter Space for File System Browsing
IV '05 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Visualisation
MyLifeBits: a personal database for everything
Communications of the ACM - Personal information management
Fast, flexible filtering with phlat
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Navigation and browsing on a computer system are usually done using the file system hierarchy. However, this is not the most adequate method to search or locate a given file at a later time, unless we know exactly where it is. In this paper, we present a new approach for interactive file search·ing, which takes advantage of the (implicit) metadata asso·ciated to files. With this information we specify a semantic hierarchy that is both used for browsing and filtering the found files. We combine this with an interactive histogram, for overviewing and filtering according to specific metadata, and a dynamic view mechanism, which selects the most ap·propriate representation for the type of file being presented. Experimental tests with users revealed that they can find files faster than with a conventional browser or searching tool and that the semantic hierarchy and filtering mecha·nism were well understood by users.