Context Techniques

Context Techniques is a class of interactive visualization methods that augment a user’s focused view of data with simultaneously visible, lower-detail surrounding information or navigational cues in order to preserve orientation and provide interpretive background during exploration.

Publications

6.3K

Citations

218

Authors

105

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Variants

Context-plus-focus TechniquesFocus+context Techniques

Parents

Interactive Visualization

Children

Adaptive Contextual InterfacesContext-aware VisualizationContextual BrushingContextual Exploration InterfacesContextual FilteringContextual HighlightingContextual Lens InterfacesContextual Re-projectionContextual StorytellingContextual Summarization

Publications

A focus+context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies

John Lamping, Ramana Rao, Peter Pirolli · 1995 · 892 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Visualization +14

An empirical study of context in object detection

Santosh Divvala, Derek Hoiem, James Hays et al. · 2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2009 · 520 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Vision +14

Enhanced Reality Fieldwork: the Context Aware Archaeological Assistant

Jason Pascoe, David R. Morse · Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen · 1999 · 369 citations · Full text

Computing, Archaeology, Immersive Visualization +7

Contextual design

Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt · interactions · 1999 · 362 citations · Full text

Architecture, Design, Information Systems +17

TreeJuxtaposer

Tamara Munzner, François Guimbretière, Serdar Taşiran et al. · 2003 · 297 citations

Computing, Evolutionary Biology, Visualization +17

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Authors

218

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Emmanuel Pietriga
Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, France
5 publications · 218 citations
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Caroline Appert
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
5 publications · 218 citations
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Karen Holtzblatt
Synergy Enterprises (United States), United States
4 publications · 730 citations
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Hugh Beyer
Synergy Enterprises (United States), United States
4 publications · 730 citations
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Tamara Munzner
University of British Columbia, Canada
3 publications · 551 citations
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Institutions

105

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Venues

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TVCG · 6 publications · 295 citations
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Automation in Construction
2 publications · 133 citations
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2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Conference · 2 publications · 599 citations
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Aslib Proceedings
1 publications · 23 citations
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Cognition
1 publications · 10 citations
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