VISUALIZATION AND NAVIGATION OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS

摘要

A system stores visual content, and displays the visual content on a display unit in an undistorted, overview projection. The system receives input from a user to focus on a topic in the undistorted, overview projection, and transforms the undistorted, overview projection into a focused display showing the topic selected by the user and content related to the topic selected by the user in a continuous sequence of increasingly distorted projections. In the focused display, the content that is not related to the topic selected by the user does not move on the focused display, and the content that is related to the topic selected by the user moves towards the topic selected by the user on the focused display.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a computer processor and a computer storage device configured to:
store visual content in the computer storage device;display the visual content on a display unit in an undistorted, overview projection;receive input from a user to focus on a topic in the undistorted, overview projection; andtransform the undistorted, overview projection into a focused display showing the topic selected by the user and content related to the topic selected by the user in a continuous sequence of increasingly distorted projections;wherein content that is unrelated to the topic selected by the user becomes invisible at the end of the transformation irrespective of a location of the unrelated content on the undistorted, overview projection; andwherein content that is related to the topic selected by the user moves towards the topic selected by the user on the focused display.