Presentation by Sirko Schindler (University of Jena) at Lernen, Wissen, Adaptivität (LWA 2008), University of Würzburg, 6.-8. October 2008. Track: ABIS (collaboration with Andreas Nauerz). (see paper)
Treemaps were proposed by Johnson & Schneiderman in 1991. The author propose adaptive treemaps – displaying different treemaps to different users – to improve the navigation in web portals. To test several algorithms, the author developed a prototype, which is embedded into the IBM WebSphere Portal.