Movement as an Aid to Understanding Graphs

  • Authors:
  • John Bovey;Peter Rodgers;Florence Benoy

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IV '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper describes a graph visualization method thatattempts to aid the understanding of graphs by addingcontinuous local movement to graph diagrams. The paperincludes a discussion of some of the many different kinds ofpotential graph movement and then describes an empiricaltrial that was conducted to investigate whether one kind ofmovement helps with a particular graph comprehensiontask. Although the results of the trial are promising, thedegree of benefit afforded by the movement varies betweengraphs and the paper includes a discussion about graphfeatures which may account for this discrepancy.