User controlled overviews of an image library
Chris L. North, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant · 1996
a user interface for remote access of of Medicine's Visible Human digital image library.U;ers can visualize the library, br;wse contents, locate data of interest, and retrieve desired images.The interface presents a pair of tightly coupled views into the library data.The overview image provides a global view of the overall search space, and the preview image provides details about high resolution images available for retrieval.To explore, the user sweeps the views through the search space and receives smooth, rapid, visual feedback of contents.Desired images are automatically downloaded over the internet from the library.