The detail-in-context problem

This appears to be a central framing of the problems confronting my work in creating Peripheral vision for Evergreen notes graph structure.

• Keahey, T. A. (1998). The generalized detail in-context problem. Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (Cat. No.98TB100258), 44–51. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFVIS.1998.729558
  • Alan Keahey
• Bederson, B. B., Hollan, J. D., Perlin, K., Meyer, J., Bacon, D., & Furnas, G. (1996). Pad++: A Zoomable Graphical Sketchpad For Exploring Alternate Interface Physics. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, 7(1), 3–32. https://doi.org/10.1006/jvlc.1996.0002
• The Office of the Professional - Robert Spence via Max Krieger
  • “I’m reading my morning newspaper through this window… what other articles are there? Where is the crossword? Where am I?”

WizMap

Related: Zoomable user interfaces

Santiago Ortiz has this incredible fish-eye browser of his web references. I don’t know how functional/legible it is, really, but it is incredibly visually compelling.

Microsoft Fishnet

prathyvsh/semantic-zoom: Github repository to catalogue semantic zoom interaction patterns