TY - GEN
T1 - HiMap
T2 - IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, PacificVis 2009
AU - Shi, Lei
AU - Cao, Nan
AU - Liu, Shixia
AU - Qian, Weihong
AU - Tan, Li
AU - Wang, Guodong
AU - Sun, Jimeng
AU - Lin, Ching Yung
PY - 2009/7/21
Y1 - 2009/7/21
N2 - Visualizing large-scale online social network is a challenging yet essential task. This paper presents HiMap, a system that visualizes it by clustered graph via hierarchical grouping and summarization. HiMap employs a novel adaptive data loading technique to accurately control the visual density of each graph view, and along with the optimized layout algorithm and the two kinds of edge bundling methods, to effectively avoid the visual clutter commonly found in previous social network visualization tools. HiMap also provides an integrated suite of interactions to allow the users to easily navigate the social map with smooth and coherent view transitions to keep their momentum. Finally, we confirm the effectiveness of HiMap algorithms through graph-travesal based evaluations.
AB - Visualizing large-scale online social network is a challenging yet essential task. This paper presents HiMap, a system that visualizes it by clustered graph via hierarchical grouping and summarization. HiMap employs a novel adaptive data loading technique to accurately control the visual density of each graph view, and along with the optimized layout algorithm and the two kinds of edge bundling methods, to effectively avoid the visual clutter commonly found in previous social network visualization tools. HiMap also provides an integrated suite of interactions to allow the users to easily navigate the social map with smooth and coherent view transitions to keep their momentum. Finally, we confirm the effectiveness of HiMap algorithms through graph-travesal based evaluations.
KW - Adaptive visualization
KW - Clustered graph
KW - H.5 [user interfaces] graphical user interfaces
KW - I.3 [methodology and techniques] interaction techniques
KW - Social network visualization
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U2 - 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2009.4906836
DO - 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2009.4906836
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67650524724
SN - 9781424444045
T3 - IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, PacificVis 2009 - Proceedings
SP - 41
EP - 48
BT - IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, PacificVis 2009 - Proceedings
Y2 - 20 April 2009 through 23 April 2009
ER -