Sensitivity Encoding to Support Information Space Navigation: A Design Guideline
Robert J Spence · Information Visualization · 2002
This article identifies, illustrates and offers justification for a guideline intended to support interaction design for navigation in electronic information spaces. The essence of the guideline is the concept of ‘sensitivity encoding', a feature of a data display intended to provide guidance regarding potentially beneficial movement in information space. That navigation's objective may be the formation of a mental model, movement towards an objective, or both.