User Controlled Overviews of an Image Library: A Case Study of the Visible Human
Chris North†, Ben Shneiderman†* and Catherine Plaisant , †Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory; †Department of Computer Science; *Institute for Systems Research; University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA, {north, ben, plaisant}. E-mail address: plaisant@cs.umd.edu
ABSTRACT
This paper proposes a user interface for remote access of the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human digital image library. Users can visualize the library, browse contents, locate data of interest, and retrieve desired images. The interface presents a pair of tightly coupled views into the library data. The overview image provides a global view of the overall search space, ...
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