Design Exploration

Figure 1: Tree View for Spatial Groups

Figure 2: Information Panel for a Spatial Group

Spatial Groups (Figure 1)

A spatial parser can identify some groupings of objects automatically. The spatial groups view shows the spatial structure identified by a spatial parser.

Note: For similarity comparisons in navigation and clustering, only spatial groups with out other spatial groups in them are used, i.e. that only contain leaves.

Spatial Group Types

Vertical List

Horizontal List

Composite (contains spatial groups)

Group

Tree Node Label

[X] Type in Window (WindowID)

Information Panel (Figure 2)

A thumbnail of the window where the spatial group is identified. The widgets in the spatial group are highlighted with a lighter shade of red to distinguish them from windows representing a single widget.