Snap-Together Visualization: Coordinating Multiple Views to ExploreInformation
Chris L. North, Ben Shneiderman · University Libraries (University of Maryland) · 1999
Information visualizations with multiple coordinated views enable users to rapidly explore complex data and discover relationships. However, it is usually difficult for users to find or create the coordinated visualizations they need. Snap-Together Visualization allows users to coordinate multiple views that are customized to their needs. Users query their relational database and load results into desired visualizations. Then they specify coordinations between visualizations for selecting, navigating, or re-querying. Developers can make independent visualization tools `snapable ' by including a few hooks. KEYWORDS: User Interface, Coordination, Multiple Views, Tightly Coupled, Information Visualization. INTRODUCTION The multiple coordinated views approach is a powerful and increasingly-employed user-interface technique for exploring information. Each view is a visualization of some part of the information, and views are coordinated (a.k.a. "tightly coupled", or "linked") so that t...