Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of Un/foldable Data Visualizations

Revealing relevant information on demand is an essential requirement for visual data exploration. In this state‐of‐the‐art report, we review and classify techniques that are inspired by the physical metaphor of un/folding to reveal relevant information or, conversely, to reduce irrelevant informatio...

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Veröffentlicht in:Computer graphics forum Jg. 44; H. 3
Hauptverfasser: Bludau, M.‐J., Dörk, M., Bruckner, S., Tominski, C.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2025
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CCS Concepts
Context
Data visualization
Folding
Human‐centered computing → Visualization techniques
Interaction techniques
Metaphor
Scientific visualization
Visualization
Zooming
ISSN:0167-7055, 1467-8659
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Zusammenfassung:Revealing relevant information on demand is an essential requirement for visual data exploration. In this state‐of‐the‐art report, we review and classify techniques that are inspired by the physical metaphor of un/folding to reveal relevant information or, conversely, to reduce irrelevant information in data visualizations. Similar to focus+context approaches, un/foldable visualizations transform the visual data representation, often between different granularities, in an integrated manner while preserving the overall context. This typically involves switching between different visibility states of data elements or adjusting the graphical ion linked by gradual display transitions. We analyze a literature corpus of 101 visualization techniques specifically with respect to their use of the un/folding metaphor. In particular, we consider the type of data, the focus scope and the effect scope, the number of un/folding states, the transformation type, and the controllability and interaction directness of un/folding. The collection of un/foldables is available as an online catalog that includes classic focus+context, semantic zooming, and multi‐scale visualizations as well as contemporary un/foldable visualizations. From our literature analysis, we further extract families of un/folding techniques, summarize empirical findings to date, and identify promising research directions for un/foldable data visualization.
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ISSN:0167-7055
1467-8659
DOI:10.1111/cgf.70152