Hoptrees: Branching history navigation for hierarchies

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Designing software for exploring hierarchical data sets is challenging because users can easily become lost in large hierarchies. We present a novel interface, the hoptree, to assist users with navigating large hierarchies. The hoptree preserves navigational history and context and allows one-click navigation to recently-visited locations. We describe the design of hoptrees and an implementation that we created for a tree exploration application. We discuss the potential for hoptrees to be used in a wide variety of hierarchy navigation scenarios. Through a controlled experiment, we compared the effectiveness of hoptrees to a breadcrumb navigation interface. Study participants overwhelmingly preferred the hoptree, with improved time-on-task with no difference in error rates. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.

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Brooks, M., West, J. D., Aragon, C. R., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2013). Hoptrees: Branching history navigation for hierarchies. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8119 LNCS, pp. 316–333). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40477-1_20

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