A Taxonomy of Information Visualization User-Interfaces

By Chris North Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland at College Park

This page has now been replaced by the new expanded OLIVE: On-line Library of Information Visualization Environments.

This is a resource page for information visualization and exploration user-interfaces techniques from research projects. Interface techniques are organized by the Data Type of the underlying information for which they are intended. This categorization method is derived from the following paper:

Ben Shneiderman. The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy of information visualizations, Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages '96, IEEE, Los Alamos, CA (September 1996), pg 336-343, [Postscript file] [Text only].

This page is continually improving, so please email suggestions or mysteriously missing interfaces/projects to north@cs.umd.edu.

Keywords: Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Factors, Information Visualization, Information Exploration, Usability, User Interface.

DataType	Title	Institution/Author	Links to pages, publications
Temporal (i.e. Timelines, histories)	LifeLines	HCIL-Maryland	Homepage
	LifeStreams	Yale	Homepage, Company
	MMVIS: Temporal Dynamic Queries	U Michigan: Hibino	Thesis
	Perspective Wall	Xerox	CHI91, (see Information Visualizer)
	VideoStreamer	MIT	Homepage
1 Dimensional (i.e. Linear data, text, lists)	Document Lens	Xerox	(see Information Visualizer)
	Fractal Views	UEC-Japan: Koike	TOIS'95
	SeeSoft	Lucent / Bell Labs	HomePage, Brochure, IEEE Computer 4/96
	Tilebars	Xerox	CHI'95, (see Information Visualizer)
	WebBook	Xerox	(see Information Visualizer)
2 Dimensional (i.e. Planar data, images, maps, layouts)	ArcView	ESRI	Homepage
	Fisheye/Distortion views		Resource Page
	GroupKit	Calgary	HomePage
	Information Mural	GVU-GeorgiaTech	Homepage
	Pad++	New Mexico	Homepage
	Powers of Ten		Homepage
3 Dimensional (i.e. Volumetric data, 3D images, solid models)	The Neighborhood Viewer	Minnesota	Homepage
	Visible Human Explorer (VHE)	HCIL-Maryland	Homepage
	Volvis	SUNY-SB	Homepage
	Voxelman	IMDM-hamburg	Homepage
Multi-Dimensional (i.e. Many attributes, relational, statistical)	Filter-Flow	HCIL-Maryland	Paper
	Dynamic Queries, Query Previews (HomeFinder, FilmFinder, EOSDIS)	HCIL-Maryland	HomePage
	Influence/Attribute Explorer	Imperial College	HomePage
	LinkWinds	JPL-NASA	HomePage
	Magic Lens	Xerox	Homepage
	Parallel Coordinates		thesis
	Selective Dynamic Manipulation (SDM)	CMU	Homepage
	Spotfire	IVEE Development	Homepage
	Table Lens	Xerox	CHI94, (see Information Visualizer)
	Visage	CMU	Homepage
	VisDB	Munich	Homepage
	Worlds Within Worlds	Feiner	UIST90
	XGobi	AT&T Labs, Bellcore	Homepage
Hierarchical (i.e. Trees)	Cone/Cam-Trees	Xerox	CHI91, (see Information Visualizer)
	Elastic Windows	HCIL-Maryland	Homepage Report,
	Fractal Views	UEC-Japan: Koike	VL'93
	Hyperbolic Trees	Xerox	CHI95
	Info Cube	Sony	Homepage
	TreeBrowser (Dynamic Queries)	HCIL-Maryland	Abstract
	TreeMap / WinSurfer	HCIL-Maryland	Viz91, Homepage, Winsurfer, Widget
	WebSpace	U Minnesota	Homepage
Network (i.e. Graphs)	Butterfly Citation Browser	Xerox	CHI'95, (see Information Visualizer)
	Fisheye		Paper
	Galaxy of News	MIT	Description
	Graphic History Browser	GVU-GaTech	HomePage
	IGD (Interactive Graphical Documents)	Columbia: Feiner
	Intermedia	Brown	Homepage
	Multi-Trees	Furnas	Homepage
	Navigational View Builder	GVU-Gatech	HomePage, CHI'95
	NETMAP	ALTA Analytics, Inc.	Homepage
	RMM	Isakowitz	Homepage
	SemNet	Bellcore	Paper
	Themescape / SPIRE	PNL	Homepage, Abstract
WorkSpaces	CASCADE	Pittsburgh	Paper
	Information Visualizer / 3D Rooms / Web Forager	Xerox	CG&A, DLib, Paper
	Pad++	New Mexico	Homepage
	Personal Role Managers	HCIL-Maryland	Homepage

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