ACM Computing Surveys 28A(4), December 1996, http://www.acm.org/surveys/1996/CruzTailorable/. Copyright © 1996 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. See the permissions statement below.
Isabel F. Cruz
Abstract: Information visualization is emerging as one of the most important topics in human-computer interaction. Existing systems have been successful at providing automatic ways to display information using sophisticated rendering techniques (e.g., 3D, animation). We argue for tools with which users can adapt visualizations to the application at hand and to their own preferences. Ideally, such tools should combine user-defined displays with automatically-generated displays and be integrated with search mechanisms capable of accessing data in a variety of information bases (e.g., digital libraries, the WWW, databases). A combined effort of researchers in human-computer interaction and in information systems is therefore needed.
Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.1.2 [Information Systems]: Human Factors; H.5 [Information Systems]: Information Interfaces and Presentation;
General Terms: Human Factors
Additional Key Words and Phrases: Database Query Languages, Graph Drawing, Digital Libraries, Visual Languages, Information Retrieval, Constraints
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