Visualizing Cyberspace:
Information Visualization
in the Harmony Internet Browser
Keith Andrews, 1995
April 25 2001
Minho Shin
Key Words
Tightly Coupled
2D/3D
Hyper-G
Harmony
Session Manager
Local Map
Information
Landscape
Location Feedback
Information Systems
on the Internet
First generation
WAIS
Problems
No Graphical Navigation Aids
- Losing context
No Multilingual Support
Gopher
WWW
One Way Hyperlink
WWW
-Dangling link problems
No Search Facility
Information Systems
on the Internet
Second generation
Features
Bidirectional Hyperlink
Link Info in Separate DB
Links Updated Automatically
Hyper-G
2D/3D Navigation Aids
Attribute & Content Search
Access Control
Multilingual Support
What is Harmony
Hyper-G Server
Harmony
client
Navigation
Session Manager
Local Map
Info Landscape
Viewer
Text
3D
Image
Film
Session Manager
• Collection Hierarchy Navigation
• Document Search
• Administration of contents
• Connection with other visualizatins
Local Map
• Bydirectional hyper-links
• Customizable
Information Landscape
• Adaptation of FSN
• Synchronized with Session Manager
• User fly with mouse
• Flat block mean collection
Information Landscape
• Double-click expands collection
• Cube mean documents
• height for size/ color for type
• Overview gives context
Information Landscape
• Can open documents
Location Feedback
Local Map
Session Manager
Viewer
Info Landscape
Favorite Sentence
“While ideas abound and numerous
techniques have been implemented, there
has upto now been surprisingly little
usability testing of information
visualisation techniques.”
Contribution
(on visualization)
• “Tightly-coupled 2D/3D visualisation”
• “location feedback” maintains context
• 3D with overview
Critique
• What’s the 3D’s advantage ?
• too distributed visualization
Citation to this paper
cited by 16 papers
6 about Information Landscape :
city/landscape/geographical metaphor to
navigate information
1 evaluation
1 about tightly coupled 2D/3D
8 general about web visualization
Thank you
April 25 2001
Minho Shin