Browsing Hyperdocuments with Multiple Focus+Context Views

We present an interactive focus+context environment based on zooming and hierarchical representations for browsing large data sets. It gives an overview of the data and provides multiple views for visualizing the content and the local organization of documents of interest. This multi-view system has been applied to the World Wide Web browsing as a first practical demonstration. KEYWORDS: Information visualization, World Wide Web, multi-view system, focus+context, zooming interfaces, hierarchical representations, animation. PRESENTATION With typical Web browsers, users navigate through Internet information intuitively by association, following their interests by following links. Such systems only present a small fraction of the information at a given time. So, it is often unclear how this information is related to others. People have difficulty to understand idea associations and to remember where they come from and which links they have followed. They can rapidly become confused by ..