Exploring large hyperdocuments: fisheye views of nested networks

  • Authors:
  • Emanuel G. Noik

  • Affiliations:
  • University Of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Venue:
  • CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: distributed computing - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Browsing large hypertexts by following links can be difficult and confusing, especially if links span distant nodes. Often, a user would like to explore several regions of a network simultaneously, when studying the end points of one or more links, for example. Although this can be achieved by displaying each area of interest in a separate zoomed-in window, the union of such views is not always meaningful. In particular, valuable intervening context showing the relationships between the views may be lost.By balancing local detail and global context, fisheye views simultaneously display information at several levels of abstraction. We have devised a novel technique for generating fisheye views of hierarchically nested structures with multiple variable magnification strength focal points. In this paper we demonstrate its feasibility as a tool for exploring large nested hypertext networks.