The visual display of quantitative information
The visual display of quantitative information
Observed behavior and perceived value of authors in usenet newsgroups: bridging the gap
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Ordered and quantum treemaps: Making effective use of 2D space to display hierarchies
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
INFOVIS '01 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2001 (INFOVIS'01)
Tree-Maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures
VIS '91 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Visualization '91
Extending the Utility of Treemaps with Flexible Hierarchy
IV '04 Proceedings of the Information Visualisation, Eighth International Conference
Un espace de classification pour l'interaction sur dispositifs mobiles
IHM '07 Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine
Creating discussion threads graphs with Anagora
CSCL'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - Volume 1
ForAVis: explorative user forum analysis
Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
A support system for web service integration based on user profiles
AICT'11 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Applied informatics and computing theory
Empirical evaluation of a visual interface for exploring message boards
ISVC'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Advances in Visual Computing - Volume Part I
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This paper describes a new way of visualizing threaded discussion forums on compact displays. The technique uses squarified treemaps to render the threads in discussion forums as colored rectangles, thereby using 100% of the limited screen space. We conducted a preliminary user study, which compared the treemap version and a traditional text based tree interface. This showed that the contents of the discussion forum were easily grasped when using a treemap, even though there were in excess of one hundred threads. In particular our technique showed a significant improvement in time for finding the largest and most active threads. Overall, it was shown that the benefits derived from using treemaps on desktop computers are still valid for small screens.