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Visualization – New Controls and Applications

Controls in Commercial Products | Controls | Applications

Last update: 02/11/2008

This page collects new controls or interface elements and/or systems using them.

Note: For technical reasons the example pages for the different controls and applications appear in a new window.

 

Controls in Commercial Products

We have screenshots from some commercial products using new controls or interface elements (appear in a new window):

 

Controls

We have pictures and descriptions of the following new controls or interface elements (appear in a new window):

Control Purpose Data Origin Author(s) Date
AlphaSlider Select a range of text items Linear data HCIL, University of Maryland    
Attribute Explorer new Explore relations between attributes using linked histograms Multivariate data Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London Spence, Tweedie 1994-98
Cone Tree new Display wide trees Hierarchical data XEROX Parc Robertson 1991
Hierarchical Browser Tree browser Hierarchical data      
Hyperbolic Browser (Star Tree) Tree browser Hierarchical data XEROX Parc Lamping, Rao 1994-96
InfoCrystals Display sets based on attributes Data sets   Spoerri 1993
Macroscope

Browsing large display spaces (zooming, panning)

 Maps, areas MIT Media Lab, MIT Lieberman  
Magic Lens Manipulate sections of an area Maps, areas XEROX Parc Stone, Fishkin, Bier 1994/95
Progress Indicator Visualize process in time Linear data      
RangeSlider Select a numerical range Linear data HCIL, University of Maryland    
SpaceTree Tree browser Hierarchical data HCIL, University of Maryland Plaisant, Grosjean, Bederson 2002
Table Lens Interacting with large tabular data sets (focus+context) Data sets XEROX Parc Rao, Card, Pirolli 1994-96
Toggle Buttons Set logical states States HCIL, University of Maryland    
TreeMap Tree browser Hierarchical data HCIL, University of Maryland Johnson, Shneiderman 1991
Zoomable User Interfaces (Jazz, Piccolo) Managing more information than fits on the screen (zooming) Data sets (e.g. images) HCIL, University of Maryland Bederson, Hollan, Grosjean 1995

 

Applications

Finally, we have screenshots and pictures from the following applications that demonstrate the use of new controls or interface elements or are innovative on their own (appear in a new window):

 

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