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Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology archive
Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology table of contents

San Francisco, California, United States

Pages: 19 - 28

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-034-1

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Allison Woodruff	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
James Landay	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Michael Stonebraker	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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CITED BY 6

	Junichi Tatemura, Dynamic label sampling on fisheye maps for information exploration, Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces, p.238-241, May 2000, Palermo, Italy
	Allison Woodruff , James Landay , Michael Stonebraker, VIDA: (Visual Information Density Adjuster), CHI '99 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, May 15-20, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
	Maria Beatriz Carmo , Ana Paula Afonso , Paulo Pombinho Matos, Visualization of geographic query results for small screen devices, Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval, November 09-09, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
	Geoffrey Ellis , Enrico Bertini , Alan Dix, The sampling lens: making sense of saturated visualisations, CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 02-07, 2005, Portland, OR, USA
	Enrico Bertini , Giuseppe Santucci, Give chance a chance: modeling density to enhance scatter plot quality through random data sampling, Information Visualization, v.5 n.2, p.95-110, June 2006
	Matthew O. Ward, A taxonomy of glyph placement strategies for multidimensional data visualization, Information Visualization, v.1 n.3/4, p.194-210, December 2002

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
Subjects: Interaction styles (e.g., commands, menus, forms, direct manipulation)

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
H.2.0 General

Nouns: IMAGE

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
clutter, constant information density, multiscale interfaces, non-uniform distributions, visualization

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