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Unpackable Treemaps

This project aims to create a browsable map displaying the hierarchy and chronological progression of web pages, allowing visualization of cycles and handling large amounts of data using "Unpackable" treemaps. Users can unpack trees, highlight cycles and favorites, and navigate history visually. The tool is a Mozilla extension drawing treemaps as applets and faces challenges in communication and toolkit usage. Planned features include unpacking lens, keyword clustering, favorites designation, and cycle visualization, with a focus on a user-friendly navigation experience.

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Unpackable Treemaps

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  1. Unpackable Treemaps Project Update Jennifer Tillett 22 November 2004

  2. Domain/Objectives • Create a browsable map of web-browser’s history • Show hierarchy • Show chronological progression • Display parts of web pages in map • Allow visualization of cycles • Handle large amounts of data

  3. Solution • “Unpackable” treemaps Figure 1: (a) Treemap before unpacking. Nodes D1, D5 and D are beneath the D leaf nodes. (b) Treemap after "unpacking" parents of the D leaf nodes.

  4. Scenario • User will browse, then open treemap tool to visualize history • History will be linked to browser so user can open previously-browsed links • Cycles will be highlighted • Favorites will be highlighted • User can “unpack” tree using a tool

  5. Cycles Figure 4: Using the example from Figure 3, when hyperlink 'A' is selected and leaf node 'A' is added while original node 'A' gets the focus, older nodes 'Z' and 'Y' are shifted behind 'A'. An arrow on the left side of 'A' indicates that it has parent nodes which can be displayed.

  6. Tree Growth Figure 5: (a) The user has navigated back to a previously visited node, 'A', and follows a different hyperlink out of the page, 'H'. (b) The treemap is updated with a new child node for 'A'.

  7. Implementation • Tool is Mozilla extension – accesses Mozilla’s internal history file. Draws treemap as applet. • Treemap drawn using InfoVis Toolkit.

  8. Challenges • Communication between Java and Mozilla is complicated. • InfoVis Toolkit is painful to use – poorly documented. • NetBeans’ native applet handling broken.

  9. Planned Features • Unpacking lens • Clustering by keyword • Cycle visualization • Favorites designation • Navigation from tool (linking) • Page content visualized • Zooming?

  10. Previous Work • A Zooming Web BrowserBenjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan, Jason Stewart, David Rogers, David Vic • Implemented in Pad++ • Shows page content • Shows explicit tree structure • Space inefficient

  11. Previous Work • Implementing a Constructivist Approach to Web Navigation support. Romain Zeiliger, Claire Belisle, Teresa Cerratto • History tree of “document objects” • Pages in separate window • Personal web

  12. References • A Zooming Web BrowserBenjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan, Jason Stewart, David Rogers, David Vic • Implementing a Constructivist Approach to Web Navigation support Romain Zeiliger, Claire Belisle, Teresa Cerratto

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