Improving the Visualization of Hierarchies with Treemaps: Design Issues and Experimentation
Abstract
Controlled experiments with novice treemap users and real data
highlight the strengths of treemaps and provide direction for
improvement. Issues discussed include experimental results, layout
algorithms, nesting offsets, labeling, animation and small multiple
displays. Treemaps prove to be a potent tool for hierarchy display.
The principles discussed are applicable to many information
visualization situations.
(Also cross-referenced as CAR-TR-626)
(Also cross-referenced as ISR-TR-92-62)