The information mural: a technique for displaying and navigating large information spaces

  • Authors:
  • D. F. Jerding;J. T. Stasko

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • INFOVIS '95 Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Visualizations which depict entire information spaces provide context for navigation and browsing tasks; however, the limited size of the display screen makes creating effective global views difficult. We have developed a technique for displaying and navigating large information spaces. The key concept is the use of an information mural, a two-dimensional reduced representation of an entire information space that fits completely within a display window or screen. Information murals use grayscale shading and color along with anti-aliasing techniques to create a miniature version of the entire data set. By incorporating navigational capabilities, information murals become a tool that can be used as a global view along with more detailed informational displays. Information murals are utilized in our software visualization research to help depict the execution of object-oriented programs, and can also be used in more general information visualization applications.