Icon abacus and ghost icons

  • Authors:

  • Eric A. Bier;Adam Perer

  • Affiliations:

  • Palo Alto Research Center, Inc., Palo Alto, CA;University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present two techniques that make document collection visualizations more informative. Icon abacus uses the horizontal position of icon groups to communicate document attributes. Ghost icons show linked documents by adding temporary icons and by highlighting or dimming existing ones.