Henry Nathalie, Fekete Jean-Daniel
INRIA Futurs/LRI.
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2006 Sep-Oct;12(5):677-84. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.160.
MatrixExplorer is a network visualization system that uses two representations: node-link diagrams and matrices. Its design comes from a list of requirements formalized after several interviews and a participatory design session conducted with social science researchers. Although matrices are commonly used in social networks analysis, very few systems support the matrix-based representations to visualize and analyze networks. MatrixExplorer provides several novel features to support the exploration of social networks with a matrix-based representation, in addition to the standard interactive filtering and clustering functions. It provides tools to reorder (layout) matrices, to annotate and compare findings across different layouts and find consensus among several clusterings. MatrixExplorer also supports Node-link diagram views which are familiar to most users and remain a convenient way to publish or communicate exploration results. Matrix and node-link representations are kept synchronized at all stages of the exploration process.
矩阵浏览器是一个网络可视化系统，它使用两种表示形式：节点链接图和矩阵。它的设计源于在对社会科学研究人员进行多次访谈和一次参与式设计会议后确定的一系列需求。虽然矩阵在社交网络分析中常用，但很少有系统支持基于矩阵的表示形式来可视化和分析网络。除了标准的交互式过滤和聚类功能外，矩阵浏览器还提供了几个新颖的功能来支持用基于矩阵的表示形式探索社交网络。它提供了对矩阵进行重新排序（布局）、注释和比较不同布局中的结果以及在多个聚类中找到共识的工具。矩阵浏览器还支持大多数用户熟悉的节点链接图视图，并且它仍然是发布或交流探索结果的便捷方式。在探索过程的所有阶段，矩阵和节点链接表示都保持同步。
