Foldable Visualization

Supporting visual comparison with natural interaction

Christian Tominski and Falko Löffler
University of Rostock, 2011-2024

About

The software demonstrates interaction techniques that assist comparison tasks for table-based and matrix-based visual representations. The basic idea is to allow you to dynamically create snapshots of parts of the visual representation. For the comparison of such snapshots, you can (1) flexibly arrange them on the screen, (2) temporarily fade them out, or (3) temporarily fold them away. Additional visual cues are provided to further assist in finding dis/similar parts in the data.

Publications

C. Tominski, C. Forsell, and J. Johansson. Interaction Support for Visual Comparison Inspired by Natural Behavior. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 12, 2012.
C. Tominski and F. Löffler. Novel Interaction Techniques for Visual Comparison. Poster at IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis), Providence, USA, 2011.

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You may try out this Java software. Download the file FoldableVis.jar and if you are lucky you can (still) run it out of the box by calling java -jar FoldableVis.jar on the command line. On high-resolution displays, you may want to insert -Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2.0 right before the -jar switch with a scaling factor that matches your device configuration (e.g., 2.0 for 200% display scaling). This research prototype is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.