The paradigm of visual representation has, nowadays, an influence on a wide variety of domains: programming, program visualization, data visualization, user interfaces, hypertext and hypermedia visualization, interactive computing, browsing, general data exploration, etc.
The representation of complex structures in most of these domains requires that tools be built to dynamically display part of an overall structure, to allow the user to interactively move around the structure, and to help the user grasp an understanding of each individual element of the structure as well as of the global structure so as to avoiding user disorientation.
This special issue on visual navigation intends to focus on the approaches, methods and tools that have been or are being developed, based on a visual paradigm, to help the user navigate through a complex software, data or information structure. The goal of this issue is to give a good overview of the state of the art in visual navigation in as wide a variety of domains as possible.
Manuscripts may be submitted to the guest editor either electronically or in hardcopy by October 12, 1997. Reviewers will send their reports by December 20, 1997. Revised manuscripts will have to be submitted by February 28, 1998. Corrected manuscripts will be viewed by March 29, 1998. Publication is estimated around July 1998.
Electronic submission should be made in Postscript format and sent via email to bertrand.ibrahim@cui.unige.ch or made available on an FTP or an HTTP server, in which case the appropriate URL should be sent via email. For email submissions, please, uuencode the file before sending it, as Postscript files can have lines that are too long for most Mail Transfer Agents and could thus arrive truncated. An updated list of submissions received will be maintained online. Hardcopy submissions should be sent via surface mail to the following address:
Bertrand Ibrahim
JVLC
University of Geneva
General Dufour 24
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
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