[SEEK-Taxon] U Maryland project of making user-friendly tree displays

[Laura L. Downey]

Bedersen (one of the authors) was at UNM before going to University of
Maryland and joining the Human Computer Interaction Lab headed up by Ben
Shneiderman.  I remember Bedersen publishing on something he called Pad++ --
it was sort of a fish-eye view on large trees and it is now called zooming
interfaces or something like that.  I just looked it up and UMd is no longer
supporting that work but apparently UCSD is.

The Human Computer Interaction Lab at UMd is well known for its research
into visualizing large amounts of data (trees and other representations) and
being able to query large data sets so definitely a good resource.  I
mentioned them to Jessie while in Kansas and gathered that she and Martin
had reviewed some of the work done at the HCIL.

In the papers you referenced Nico, I especially like the first one of course
because it is focused totally on users -- task performance, reactions,
comments etc.

Laura L. Downey
Senior Usability Engineer
LTER Network Office
Department of Biology, MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131-0001
505.277.3157 phone
505.277-2541 fax
ldowney at lternet.edu
 

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Hi all:

   Attached are two PDFs reporting on efforts by the 
TaxonTree/DoubleTree group to get user input on their tree display 
tools. Martin Graham et al. conducted similar research (only published 
as thesis??). Together with our upcoming set of interviews these reports 
will make the tool design more solid.

Nico

*Nico M. Franz, Ph.D.
*Postdoctoral Research Fellow
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
MSB, Room # 3411, University of California
Santa Barbara, CA  93106-6150

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