Sensitivity encoding to support information space navigation: a design guideline

  • Authors:
  • Robert Spence

  • Affiliations:
  • Imperial College, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • Information Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This article identifies, illustrates and offers justification for a guideline intended to support interaction design for navigation in electronic information spaces. The essence of the guideline is the concept of 'sensitivity encoding', a feature of a data display intended to provide guidance regarding potentially beneficial movement in information space. That navigation's objective may be the formation of a mental model, movement towards an objective, or both.