The Fractal Perspective Visualization Technique for Semantic Networks
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Kelleher, Curran; Grinstein, Georges
- Source
- 2011 15th International Conference on Information Visualisation Information Visualisation (IV), 2011 15th International Conference on. :211-215 Jul, 2011
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Semantics
Visualization
Data visualization
Navigation
Fractals
Resource description framework
- Language
- ISSN
- 1550-6037
2375-0138
We introduce a novel interactive visualization technique for semantic networks supporting continuous semantic graph browsing. Our visual semantic graph representation is a nested object visualization representing a view into the graph from a node's viewpoint. In this view, panning and zooming interactions drive graph traversal. We call the visualization technique Fractal Perspective, because it has approximate fractal structure (self similarity at multiple scales) and represents a kind of "perspective projection" from graph space to display space in which distant objects (in graph space) appear smaller (in a dynamic display space). This is work in progress, and this paper should be considered primarily a concept paper with a brief description of a very early prototype harnessing multi-touch interaction.