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A System for Exploring Large Genealogies

Anastasia Bezerianos
Pierre Dragicevic
Jean-Daniel Fekete
Juhee Bae
Ben Watson

GeneaQuilts is a new visualization technique for representing large genealogies of up to several thousand individuals. Thevisualization takes the form of a diagonally-filled matrix, where rows are individuals and columns are nuclear families. This is an interactive genealogy explorationsystem based on GeneaQuilts. The system includes an overview, a timeline, search and filtering components, and a new interactiontechnique called Bring & Slide that allows fluid navigation in very large genealogies.

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java
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Windows, Mac OS X

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Institution: University of Paris South