Polyarchy visualization
- 20 April 2002
- proceedings article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- p. 423-430
- https://doi.org/10.1145/503376.503452
Abstract
We describe a new information structure composed of multiple intersecting hierarchies, which we call Polyarchies. Visualizing polyarchies enables use of novel views for discovery of relationships which are very difficult using existing hierarchy visualization tools. This paper will describe the visualization design and system architecture challenges as well as our current solutions. A Mid-Tier Cache architecture is used as a "polyarchy server" which supports a novel web-based polyarchy visualization technique, called Visual Pivot. A series of five user studies guided iterative design of Visual PivotKeywords
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