Iconification and Omission in Information Exploration
Allison Woodruff · 1998
Because users find it difficult and unpleasant to explore cluttered displays, a number of visualization systems reduce clutter by allowing users to view detail selectively. Early work includes fisheye views and the Spatial Data Management System (SDMS) [2,3]. More recent paradigms include the Pad zoomable interface and Magic Lenses [4,1]. By its very nature, this strategy for clutter reduction eliminates certain details from the display. Two processes are