In: Proceedings of InfoVis 2000, short paper.

Redefining the Focus and Context of Focus+Context Visualizations

Staffan Björk and Johan Redström
PLAY: Applied research on art and technology
Interactive Institute, Box 620, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
{staffan.bjork,johan.redstrom}@interactiveinstitute.se
http://www.interactiveinstitute.se/
http://www.playresearch.com/

Abstract

The increasing diversity of computers, especially among small mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs, raise new questions about information visualization techniques developed for the desktop computer. Using a series of examples ranging from applications for ordinary desktop displays to web-browsers and other applications for PDAs, we describe how a focus+context technique, Flip Zooming, is changed due to the situation it is used in. Based on these examples, we discuss how the use of "focus" and "context" in focus+context techniques change in order to fit new areas of use for information visualization. By doing so, we hope to enrich the understanding of how focus+context techniques as a whole may be further developed.

Keywords

Information Visualization, Personal Digital Assistants, Focus+Context techniques

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