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Polyarchy visualization: visualizing multiple intersecting hierarchies

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George Robertson,

Kim Cameron,

Mary Czerwinski,

Daniel RobbinsAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '02: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 423 - 430

https://doi.org/10.1145/503376.503452

Published: 20 April 2002 Publication History

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We describe a new information structure composed of multiple intersecting hierarchies, which we call Polyarchies. Visualizing polyarchies enables use of novel views for discovery of relationships which are very difficult using existing hierarchy visualization tools. This paper will describe the visualization design and system architecture challenges as well as our current solutions. A Mid-Tier Cache architecture is used as a "polyarchy server" which supports a novel web-based polyarchy visualization technique, called Visual Pivot. A series of five user studies guided iterative design of Visual Pivot

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